10 ideas 1908-2408

I had two days of failures again

10 ideas for what you should know about skills

1. On average, expertise in competitive field is achieved with 10,000 hours of practice

2. Nerve fibers and synapses between them improve → better skill
3. There is always an opportunity costs, you cannot learn every skill
4. You can learn by watching, you have mirror neurons, which help you learn
5. You learn better when you have breaks
6. Right repetitions more important than quantity of them
7. Natural style should be developed
8. There will be moments of no progress → some changes needed in learning process
9. You need good habits for better performance
10. Do not try to figure out everything yourself, use coaches/mentors

10 ideas about cycles

1. Everything has cycles
2. Time of recovery is important part of performance cycles
3. You need to know your own cycles to make better decisions
4. Debt cycles should be divided to short-term and long-term cycles
5. You cannot stay on top of performance cycle all the time
6. You learn better when you are on top of your cycles
7. Most people do not understand them
8. Cycles always come, but they are not equals
9. Failure is more probable at the bottom of the cycle
10. Biggest damages happen during the bottom

10 ideas about investment clubs

1. You may find new perspectives from them
2. Not everybody knows what they are saying
3. Filter everything
4. Do not make any decisions during meeting
5. Many have their own agendas
6. Do not let ”credibility” fool you, ”smart” answer may sound incredibly convincing
7. Concentrate on ideas, not appearance
8. If somebody shows their earnings, they must be at least for a 10 year period
9. Do no believe any gossip
10. Other people´s opinions do not matter, your analysis does

10 ideas for mental models you should understand

1. Inertia
2. Cycles
3. Edge
4. Skills
5. The path of lowest resistance
6. availability bias
7. association bias
8. Social proof bias
9. Deliberate Practice
10. Systems

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10 ideas 16-18.8

10 ideas for neighbors you should not listen to

1. Complainers
2. Stalkers
3. Who only communicate with noises, not speech
4. Addicts
5. Troublemakers
6. Who think they know everything better
7. Salesmen
8. Politicians
9. Who only talks about their things
10. Gossipers

10 ideas for non-fiction authors

1. Have your own voice

2. If you can idenfity only one cause for big things, you understand nothing
3. You need to have own thoughts for the material you find from your sources
4. Trust science, not your own opinions
5. Use many sources and double check everything
6. Do not assume anything
7. If you don´t understand something, forget it
8. Language and grammar are important
9. Aim for the truth, not for selling many books
10. Love your haters, they may be useful

10 ideas for de-cluttering

1. Make your own rules before starting to get rid of things and have no exceptions
2. Start with one thing
3. With cheap and medium priced and sized items, ask friends first, if they need something
4. Do not leave anything for ”just in case”
5. Do not leave things you haven´t used in years
6. Once you have something you think it is more important. Others see the real truth, ask them
7. When you add one item, lose at least one
8. Throw all the cheap and broken items away
9. Change papers into electronic form
10. Remember the opportunity costs in selling items. You cannot get time used for selling an item back

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10 ideas for talks show hosts you should not listen

10 ideas for talk show hosts you shouldn´t listen to

1. Talk show hosts who have strong political ideologies
2. Talk show hosts who are politically correct
3. Talk show hosts who are too worried about their appearance
4. Talk show hosts who imitate other hosts, because they do not know what they are doing
5. Talk show hosts who have no personal touch in hosting
6. Talk show hosts who do not prepare properly
7. Talk show hosts who do not genuinely enjoy their work
8. Talk show hosts who say only what quests like to hear
9. Talk show hosts who do not want critical feedback
10. Talk show hosts who do not understand even what they are themselves saying

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10 ideas for investment advisors you shouldn´t listen

10 ideas for investment advisors you shouldn´t listen to

1. Investment advisors who measure success in less than ten years
2. Investment advisors who believes in only one solution
3. Investment advisors who sell only company´s own products
4. Investment advisors who do not tell all the costs
5. Investment advisors who sells you products with highest commissions
6. Investment advisors who talks with language you don´t understand
7. Investment advisors who tells you there are no risks in these investments
8. Investment advisors who is too worried about his appearance
9. Investment advisors who talks about fast results
10. Investment advisors who tells you ”This time is different”

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10 ideas for colleagues you shouldn´t listen to

10 ideas for colleagues you shouldn´t listen to

1. Colleagues who doesn´t let you focus on your work
2. Colleagues who are selfish
3. Colleagues who complain all the time
4. Colleagues who are not willing to return your favor
5. Colleagues who do not care about you
6. Colleagues who have nothing good to say about you
7. Colleagues who are liers
8. Colleagues who take all the credit from your effort
9. Colleagues who assume you know what they mean when they say something odd
10. Colleagues who have never taken risks

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Ideas for 09.08-12.08

I failed in getting 10 ideas 10^th and 11^th August. This is why there will be only twenty ideas.

10 ideas for family members you shouldn´t listen to

1. Family members who tell you what you should do without asking from you
2. Family members whose messages are not clear to you
3. Family members who care only about themselves
4. Family members whose feedback is not constructive
5. Family members who only yell at you
6. Family members who do not care about your feelings
7. Family members who haven´t had a contact in many years
8. Family members who have lied to you
9. Family members who do not believe in you
10. Family members who are not willing to tell you the truth when it is better for you to hear it

10 ideas for reporters who you shouldn´t listen to

1. Reporters who are always politically correct

2. Reportets who are not giving constructive critisism
3. Reporters who cannot take constructive criticism
4. Reporters who suffer from extreme ideologies
5. Reporters who idelozes people who they interview
6. Reporters who lie
7. Reporters who copy their writings
8. Reporters who are too interested about outer appearance
9. Reporters who change their opinions when their bosses opinion changes
10. Reporters who are not sane

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10 ideas for relatives you shouldn´t listen to

10 ideas for relatives you shouldn´t listen to

1. Relatives who talk only about gossips
2. Relatives who think they know your things better
3. Relatives who complain all the time
4. Relatives who undermine you
5. Relativses who are not willing to help you when you need it the most
6. Relatives who are not keeping their promises
7. Relatives who have nothing good to say about you.
8. Relatives who you haven´t met for years
9. Relatives who are dishonest
10. Relatives who have never taken risks

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10 ideas for friends you shouldn´t listen

10 ideas for friends you shouldn´t listen to

1. Friends who are selfish
2. Friends who do not believe in you
3. Friends who complain all the time
4. Friends who do not give credit to a person it belongs to
5. Friends who tell you ”this is the only way to it”
6. Friends who never say ”I don´t know”
7. Friends who never take risks
8. Friends who suffer from extreme ideologies
9. Friends who never give you any positive feedback
10. Friends who talk behind your back

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10 ideas for "experts you should not listen to

10 ideas 06.08.2017

1. ”Experts” who have different incentives than you do
2. ”Experts” who believe that they know everything
3. ”Experts” who believe in one explanation in big results
4. ”Experts” who never give credit to anyone else
5. ”Experts” who translate their mistakes to being right
6. ”Experts” who never say I don´t know
7. ”Experts” who dismiss the scientific facts
8. ”Experts” who suffer from extreme ideologies
9. ”Experts”who worry about political correctness
10. ”Experts” who cover their asses all the time

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10 ideas 04.08.2017 and 05.08.2017

10 ideas for idea sex for people you shouldn´t listen to

1. Politicians who...
2. ”Experts” who...
3. Friends who...
4. Relatives who...
5. Family members who...
6. Reporters who...
7. Colleagues who...
8. Financial advisors who...
9. Talk show hosts who...
10. Neighbors who...

10 ideas for politicians you shouldn´t listen to

1. Politicians who talk much, but say nothing

2. Politicians who are not telling their financiers
3. Politicians who are more worried about their appearance than their ideas
4. Politicians who tell us only nice things
5. Politicians who are caught lying
6. Politicians who take full advantage of their positions
7. Politicians who are only interested in saving the world outside of your country
8. Politicians who change their parties, because their party is not doing well
9. Politicians who change their opinions when the audience changes
10. Politicians who have committed a crime

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10 ideas for better writing

10 ideas 03.08.2017

1. Read more
2. Do not use adverbs
3. Keep sentences short
4. Use a simpler and shorter word from to options
5. No writing when you are tired
6. Sleep more
7. Go into unfamiliar environment
8. Meet new people
9. Get feedback
10. Learn grammar

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10 ideas for having better weekends

1. Less alcohol
2. More sleep
3. No tight schedules
4. No alarm clocks
5. No interaction with the people you don´t really like on purpose
6. No working
7. Try new things
8. Do not have too many chores at home
9. Do something you know you will enjoy
10. Eat well

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10 ideas 28.07-01.08

10 ideas for what not to do to others

1. Lie
2. Assume they know something without real proof
3. Do not use a wrong name while talking to them
4. Do not be late
5. Do not be rude
6. Do not leave anything important away from your message
7. Not to give them a chance to form their own opinion
8. Do not forget their feelings
9. Do not have prejudices
10. Do not undermine them

10 ideas for what to do to others

1. Trust them

2. Give them choices
3. Use their real names
4. Tell them the truth
5. Keep your words
6. Be on time
7. Give constructive feedback
8. Give compliments when earned them
9. Help them as well as you can
10. Give them space if needed

10 ideas for being wiser

1. Ask many questions
2. Always try to find the real cause
3. Think before executing an action
4. Drink less alcohol
5. Develop your idea machine
6. Ask constructive criticism
7. Give constructive criticism
8. Never assume anything
9. Create your own principles for your life
10. Try understanding the best mental models

10 ideas for a better sleeping routine

1. Have a 15 minute walk in the evening
2. Do not use electronic devices after 10pm.
3. Have a same going to sleep time every day
4. Have dark curtains in bedroom
5. Make a tomorrows to-do list before going to bed
6. Use bed only for sleeping and sex
7. Do not work after 6pm unless you really have to
8. Do not eat just before going to bed
9. Have no caffeine after 2pm
10. Do not use sleeping enhancers

10 ideas for people you shouldn´t listen

1. Politicians
2. Anyone who is forecasting
3. Anyone who knows everything
4. Most of the investment advisors
5. Anyone who believes in intelligent design
6. Idealists
7. Complainers
8. Gossipers
9. Anyone with a fancy and incomprhensible job title
10. People who don´t know how to simplify

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10 ideas for how to be unreliable

10 ideas for how to be unreliable

1. Be late
2. Lie
3. Do not keep your word (close to lying, but not the same thing)
4. Assume instead of finding out all the necessary things
5. Do not have a schedule
6. Do not have a back-up system
7. Have too many things to do at once
8. Keeping your home very untidy
9. Do not use checklists
10. Get into flow state when you need to be somewhere else

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10 ideas for insanities you should avoid

10 ideas for insanities you should avoid

1. Thinking you are always right
2. Thinking what works today will work in the future
3. Thinking your side wins when the incentives of the other people are different
4. Thinking talking is more important than action
5. Thinking talent is everything
6. Thinking you can everything as fast as the other people
7. Thinking doing the same thing will give you a different result
8. Thinking the most important word is Yes. Truth is it is No.
9. Thinking life should be fair. It never is, get over it!
10. Thinking reasoning will win the feelings

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10 ideas for being more creative

10 ideas for being more creative

1. Walk in the forest
2. Change one thing to your road to work
3. Travel somewhere you have never been
4. Walk in the busy neighborhood
5. Meet somebody you have never seen before
6. Try a new hobby
7. Go to the place where there are lots of artists
8. Listen to a music genre you have never listened
9. Say yes to almos everything for a one day
10. Get a hangover, but not a bad one

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10 ideas 24.4

10 more ideas for 10 ideas

1. 10 ideas for how to be more creative
2. 10 ideas for insanities you should avoid
3. 10 ideas for not being unreliable
4. 10 ideas for what you shouldn´t do for others
5. 10 ideas for what you should do for others
6. 10 ideas for how to be wiser
7. 10 ideas for having a better sleeping routine
8. 10 ideas for people you should´t listen
9. 10 ideas to have better weekends
10. 10 ideas for how to write better

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10 ideas 22.7 and 23.7

10 ideas for people whose books you should read

1. Garry Kasparov
2. Daniel Levitin
3. Ryan Holiday
4. Nassim Taleb
5. Timothy Ferris
6. Anders Ericsson
7. Robert Cialdini
8. Walter Isaacsson
9. Steven Kotler
10. Tom Rath

10 ideas for crappy TV shows

1. Lets put some losers into place X for weeks and give them all the booze they can drink

2. Lets watch the paint dry
3. The Finnish Soccer team, the road to world cup
4. Watching the Average Joe´s life 24/7
5. Watching Donald Trump´s Twitter feed 24/7
6. Watching me build a house
7. Watching Finnish cities during the midsummer night festival
8. Watching politicians´explanations why they betrayed their voters 24/7.
9. Watching a starving artist´s working many hours a day
10. Watching a housekeepers work in a normal house 24/7

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10 ideas 18.7-20.7

10 ideas for not failing to come up ten ideas a day

1. Do not drink beer before you have done your 10 ideas
2. Do not leave your notepad at home before you leave your home for a longer time
3. Have time reserved in your calendar for ideas
4. Do not forget availability bias while designing a habit for having 10 ideas every day
5. Buy a back-up notebook
6. Sleep enough
7. Relax enough during the day before coming up with 10 ideas
8. Have a system for doing 10 ideas
9. Have an accountability partner
10. Do a public announcement for making 10 ideas every day

10 ideas for systems to build

1. Sleeping routine

2. Go to work/school system
3. Investing
4. Getting a feedback loop for skill building
5. For shopping groceries
6. For inventing 10 ideas a day
7. For learning new things
8. For doing some kind of exercise every day
9. For monitoring your time on screen
10. Decision making

10 ideas for making better decisions

1. Keeping a good glucose level
2. Sleep enough
3. Have breaks during the day
4. Have routines to keep the amount of decisions low
5. Do not forget reciprocity bias
6. Design an environment in which you have no triggers for bad decisions
7. Do not make decisions too late during the day, especially the most important ones
8. No decisions in bad mood
9. Think what happened in similar situations before
10. Think further ahead

10 ideas for identifying false authorities

1. They talk much without saying anything
2. They put too much effor on appearance
3. They use complex language/jargon
4. They believe there is only one reason for big success
5. They never admit they are wrong
6. They think themselves they were right even when they were wrong
7. They think there is only one way of doing things
8. They don´t know how to adapt into changing conditions
9. There is secrets about their financiers
10. They tell you what you want to hear

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10 ideas for 16.7 and 17.7

10 ideas for making less mistakes

1. Do not look only the evidence that supports your thoughts
2. Think more what people do instead of thinking what they say
3. Do not think there is only one way to do things
4. Think big things happen only because of one single reason
5. Do not think experts are always right
6. Do not think someone can predict the future
7. Do not think you know everything
8. Do not think you can always find the answer with Google
9. Do not think you always have to do something
10. Do not think grass is greener on the other side of the fence

10 ideas for what you should get rid off

1. Most of your old school books

2. All the unused clothes
3. All the unused electronic devices
4. All the unused phone numbers
5. All the sports equipment you haven´t used for a while
6. All the ads you have at home
7. All the thoughts about things science has not explained
8. All the old newspapers
9. All the unnecessary favorites in web browser
10. All the friends who are not good for you

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10 ideas for books you should read

10 ideas for books you should read

1. Ryan Holiday, Ego is the Enemy
2. Daniel Levitin, The Organized Mind
3. Michael Moss, Salt, Sugar Fat
4. Anders Ericsson, Robert Pool, Peak
5. Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto
6. Daniel Kahnemann, Thinking Fast and Slow
7. Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit
8. Daniel Levitin, a Field Guide to Lies and Statistics
9. Teresa Amabile, Robert Cramer, The Progress Principle
10. Steven Kotler, The Rise of the Superman

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10 ideas for psychological biases you should understand

10 ideas for psychological biases you should understand

1. Availability bias
2. Authority bias
3. Consistency bias
4. Scarcity bias
5. Social Proof
6. Association bias
7. Endowment effect
8. Liking bias
9. Overconfidence
10. Unity bias

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10 ideas for what you should avoid while you are working

10 ideas for what not to do while working

1. Multitasking
2. Checking email during your most productive hours
3. Keep the volume high on your phone unless you have to
4. Yell to a client
5. Complain
6. Not having breaks
7. Social media
8. Trade with stocks
9. Talk to your annoying colleague when you don´t have to
10. Watch TV

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10 ideas for what you shouldn´t do on vacation

10 ideas for 12.7.2017

1. Open your zipper on the rowing boat while standing up
2. To stay at home for the whole day without being sick
3. Hurt yourself while exercising too much
4. Get a tick bite
5. Burn yourself in the sun
6. Spending too much time on screen
7. Drink too much alcohol
8. Buy too many things
9. Stay in your comfort zone for the whole vacation
10. Argue too much with somebody

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ten ideas for what to do on vacation

1. Spend a weekend in the summer cottage
2. Have a barbeque
3. Go fishing
4. Go for a walk into the forest
5. Go to a sports event
6. Go swimming to a lake or to the see
7. See your friends in the other cities
8. Have some beers in a terrace
9. Read books
10. Watch a sunset

These are my ten ideas for spending time on vacation

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10 ideas for what I should learn

10 ideas for what I should learn

1. A new language
2. How to get better ideas
3. How to keep things in order instead of chaos
4. How to cook great omelettes
5. How to drink alcohol responsibly
6. How to eat more vegetables
7. How to get rid off my old stuff
8. How to build better systems
9. How to use a smartphone
10. How to iron shirts properly

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10 ideas for things you should monitor

10 ideas for things you should monitor

1. Developing a new habit
2. Changing an old habit
3. Time used at work
4. Eating
5. Drinking alcohol
6. Exercising
7. Sleeping
8. Your progress in building a new skill
9. Your finances
10. How many different items you buy versus the items you get rid off

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10 Ideas 6.7-8.7

I had a short trip. Here are my ten ideas for 6.7, 7.7, and 8.7

10 ideas for habits you should have

1. Go to sleep routine
2. Not using smartphone after 10 pm.
3. Reading a non-fiction book every day
4. Sleeping 7-8 hours every day
5. Moving your body with some way every day
6. Habit of developing a new habit
7. Habit of trying to change a bad habit every day
8. Monitoring of developing a new habit
9. Having the Most Important Task for every day
10. Having enough breaks every day

10 ideas for habits you shouldn´t have

1. Hitting a snooze after waking up
2. Buying too much stuff
3. Blaming others for failures
4. using smartphone after 10 pm.
5. Doing something else in bed except having sex or sleeping
6. Complaining
7. Giving up too easily
8. Creating false expectations
9. Believing what politicians are saying instead of figuring out what they are actually doing
10. Focusing on thinking too much, instead of executing your ideas

10 ideas for things you should understand better

1. Skills
2. Willpower
3. Habits
4. Multitasking
5. Finance
6. Deliberate practice
7. Other people
8. Debt
9. History
10. Cycles

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Ten ideas for ten ideas to invent in next ten days

Here are 10 ideas for 10 ideas to the next 10 days

1. 10 habits you should have
2. 10 habits you shouldn´t have
3. 10 ideas for 10 things people should really understand
4. 10 ideas what people should monitor during the day
5. 10 ideas for what you should learn
6. 10 ideas for what you should do on vacation
7. 10 ideas for what you shouldn´t do on vacation
8. 10 ideas what to avoid during work
9. 10 ideas for psychological biases you should understand
10. 10 ideas for the books you should read

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Ten ideas to be happier

Here are my 10 ideas to improve your happiness

1. Interact more with happy people
2. Interact less with unhappy people
3. Do something meaninful every day
4. Do not complain
5. Do not live in a noisy neighborhood
6. Go for a walk every day
7. Find three things to be grateful every day
8. Find three things that went well every day
9. Try something new
10. Buy experiences, not stuff

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10 Ideas to improve your productivity

Here are my 10 ideas to improve your productivity:

1. Stop multitasking
2. Sleep more
3. Have enough breaks while you are working
4. Learn only from the best in your field
5. Turn off ping from you emails
6. Have less meetings
7. Develop better systems for working
8. Have a walk for at least half an hour every day
9. Avoid difficult colleagues
10. Avoid unnecessary talks with colleagues

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Ten ideas to improve your life

Here are my 10 ideas to improve your life:

1. Complain less
2. Watch less TV
3. Watch less news
4. Spend less time with your smartphone
5. Say ”No” more often
6. Spend more time with your loved ones
7. Read more non-fiction
8. Invent your own ideas instead of reading this crap
9. Sleep more
10. Stop multitasking

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Ten ideas to improve my life

Here are my 10 ideas to improve my life:

1. Eat less crap
2. Watch less TV shows
3. Watch less news
4. Have real breaks while learning
5. Say ”No” more
6. Exercise more
7. Read more non-fiction
8. See friends more
9. Try to have better quality sleep
10. Keep things in better order

The idea is to invent the easiest ideas first to get my idea muscle warming up

Introduction

James Altucher says: ”Ideas are the currency of the twenty-first century.” With this idea, I am trying to create ten ideas a day from the 1st of July to 31st of December. And I am hoping I will be better in creating better ideas after trying it for a half a year. I have no idea if I will succeed, but at least I will try. This is an experiment, which may last a shorter time, but it is worth to give it a try. There is not much I can lose with the experiment, except some time. I should have 1,800 ideas after I have completed the experiment.

Most of the ideas will be crappy, but I hope some of them will be useful. I have no high expectations. I doubt, the ideas will have any use for you, but maybe you will get excited about inventing your own ideas. The idea is not to have good ideas, it is to have ideas and have a habit for creating them.

I may not publish all the ideas during the day I have invented them, but I will sometimes publish them with some delay. I hope you will have some patience in waiting if you will ever get back after the first visit of the blog.

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