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Live More, Think Less

This was a fairly powerful read, written simply and positively; potentially at a useful point of my life. Meta-cognitive therapy, and ruminating less and explicitly rely on systems seems like something I can adopt into my daily life (I definitely try to overthink my way through every decision: trying to not think but do has been useful).

There are a couple of interesting exercises worth trying:

• identifying rumination
• detached mindfulness: labeling thoughts as an observer
• scheduling rumination time instead of leaving it open ended
• attention training
• tiger exercise
• explicitly use trigger thoughts and then detach

The form to fill out

• trigger thought, cas response & time spent, mood

• books/thinking_better
• notes/procrastination
• notes/positive_intelligence
• notes/tools_for_thought
• books/rationaltherapy
• books/scout_mindset
• books/notthinking
• notes/writing/writing_insights
• books/crucial_conversations
• notes/focus