Here are the results of doing the exercise from this post, “An exercise in knowing your beliefs; so you can change them.” for a week. I wrote beliefs down each day, then put them on a file on my computer. I didn’t keep track of what order I wrote them in, so the numbers don’t mean anything. I just use them for reference.

I’m including my word-for-word results to show that the exercise output—what you will create when you do the exercise—is only sixty-odd sentence fragments. They may not make sense to anyone else, but I expect you’ll find you’ll write in your shorthand too. What you write only has to make sense to you.

There were a few I wrote but didn’t include here because they were too intimate. You’ll come up with those too. They may help you understand your relationships.

1. Low standards first time

2. Skiing/surfing model of decision-making

3. Getting to Yes four rules

4. Feedforward and the models leading to it

5. Karate master never falling still always losing balance

6. Everybody gets fifteen minutes

7. Stress is you want the world to be one way and it’s another

8. Your body physically manifests your thoughts and beliefs

9. Samurai walk on goals

10. For most tasks people’s ability don’t vary that much; Anything one person can do I can too

11. No such thing as traits

12. You have to say no to a lot of good things to have a great life

13. Getting things done and the mind struggles to remember

14. Everybody does their best / Don’t look for blame, responsibility

15. Difficulty with effort

16. It matters even when no one can see

17. Every moment counts / Why we prefer winning the lottery to paralysis

18. Martha Graham quotes

19. You can choose your beliefs / Always interpret everything positively

20. You can look for problems or solutions. You’ll find what you look for.

21. Coaching and Michelangelo quote (friendship too)

22. Noticing mango tastes better (avoiding living in past or future)

23. We’ve barely improved quality of life since before Aristotle

24. Flexibility in beliefs is a major component of intelligence (Zoolander)

25. Everything always works out

26. The Leader and the victim

27. Social skills are most important to improve. Helps in all areas of life

28. The Model and The Method (systematic: consistent, reliable, predictable)

29. Pleasure and happiness depend on environment. Reward doesn’t.

30. You can create as much emotional reward as you want. No upper limit.

31. The more you love the more you can love more

32. Baby learning to walk

33. Crowding out

34. Today’s world is not more stressful than before. Proof against press.

35. Pain isn’t bad, nor are painful emotions

36. Media always has motivation is to provoke outrage, indignation (Consumer Reports exception). If ad-based.

37. The known laws of physics and math

38. Evolution

39. Evolutionary psychology

40. Charisma gets you to any level of society, more effective than beauty

41. If you skip one day you can skip two. If you skip two it’s over. (choice is harder than just doing it)

42. Objections reveal unmet needs

43. Good thing bad thing who knows

44. Judgment repels people as much as anything / avoid judgment words

45. Exercise never hurts, usually helps

46. Any time you’re in one place you’re not in another / I don’t value traveling much over picking a great place to live

47. People are basically similar / Look for similarities

48. You think on the time scale of interruptions / Meditation

49. Empathy gaps

50. CCSG

51. CEO was like heavy weights

52. If you’re eating food you like with friends, you won’t be unhappy

53. Problems with non-Method methods (resolutions, I want a new, law of attraction, positive thinking)

54. Sleep, food, exercise

55. Find what they like about what you want from them. Have them expand on it. Always refer to that emotion when you refer to that thing. Both get what each wants and they thank you for it.

56. Best things in my life began as most anxiety-producing

57. I support whatever consenting adults agree to.

58. If you cross tracks at too slight an angle you fall in / preconceived notions

59. Beliefs are easy to change

60. Systems theory

61. Competition Demystified (Sustainable competitive advantage) / strategy

62. Mental chatter voices your beliefs. Changing it changes your beliefs

63. Entrepreneurship myths and what works

64. Goals: be valued member of community and family, enjoy beauty of nature (especially healthy food), always improve and learn

65. Awareness of emotional processes and content is best way to improve life / mental chatter exercises, meditation

66. Alternate between improving and resting on laurels.

67. The art of what works (p.4: presence of mind, insight, resolution, combinations from history), someone has solved a problem like yours

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