Hi Anna, I never came to one of your workshops (far too culty for me!), but I did read your handbook (2019 edition) and found it full of useful tips, particularly TAPS, inner simulator/murphyjitsu, focussing, shaping, polaris, comfort zone expansion, and yoda timers were all new to me, and are all things that I’ve used occasionally ever since. They’ve worked a treat whenever I’ve been in a situation where I remembered to use them. TAPs and shaping I think are now core parts of the way I approach things.
A lot of the other things in there: (units of exchange, bucket errors, systemization, hamming questions, double crux, pedagogical content knowledge, socratic ducking, gears-level understanding, area under curve) were more formal versions of ways of thinking I’ve had since childhood.
And a lot of the rest of it looked useful, but hasn’t made it into my toolkit mainly because I didn’t spend the time to think about it and practise it. Seeing this post reminds me that I meant to re-read the handbook and see what else I could mine from it.
Nothing life-changing, but you’ve certainly made me into a more efficient and focussed, and possibly slightly happier, ineffective doomer than I was.
At the very least you’ve collectively written the best self-help manual I’ve ever read. At least as good for my soul as ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People’, and ‘The Inner Game of Tennis’. Which I hope you’ll take as the very high praise I intend.
I really think that’s not bad, and I look forward to a new edition of the handbook to read one day.
Hi Anna, I never came to one of your workshops (far too culty for me!), but I did read your handbook (2019 edition) and found it full of useful tips, particularly TAPS, inner simulator/murphyjitsu, focussing, shaping, polaris, comfort zone expansion, and yoda timers were all new to me, and are all things that I’ve used occasionally ever since. They’ve worked a treat whenever I’ve been in a situation where I remembered to use them. TAPs and shaping I think are now core parts of the way I approach things.
A lot of the other things in there: (units of exchange, bucket errors, systemization, hamming questions, double crux, pedagogical content knowledge, socratic ducking, gears-level understanding, area under curve) were more formal versions of ways of thinking I’ve had since childhood.
And a lot of the rest of it looked useful, but hasn’t made it into my toolkit mainly because I didn’t spend the time to think about it and practise it. Seeing this post reminds me that I meant to re-read the handbook and see what else I could mine from it.
Nothing life-changing, but you’ve certainly made me into a more efficient and focussed, and possibly slightly happier, ineffective doomer than I was.
At the very least you’ve collectively written the best self-help manual I’ve ever read. At least as good for my soul as ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People’, and ‘The Inner Game of Tennis’. Which I hope you’ll take as the very high praise I intend.
I really think that’s not bad, and I look forward to a new edition of the handbook to read one day.