My Undisclosed World Of Thoughts

(4 mins read)  In last week's article we talked about how you can build habits into your life.  But I often wondered if there was a way to go one up on that and build an ecosystem of habits to perform on a whole different level?  In this article, we will cover how some of these habits, coupled together, create exponential impact. Let's begin to understand this ecosystem beast slightly better. What is a Habit Ecosystem? An ecosystem is defined as an area where organisms(Plants, animals, other creatures) as well as externalities(weather and landscape), work together to achieve an end result (form a bubble of life). We will take this exact analogy and replicate what an ecosystem represents in habit terms. Let me take the liberty to define a habit ecosystem. A habit ecosystem manifests itself as a mental model(area) where a set of habits(organisms) as well as optimizations(weather) and processes(landscape) work together to form an achievement of expertise(bubble of life). S...

  (4 mins Read) Based on collective feedback from the previous article , I have decided to focus on anecdotes within this article on how I built some habits into my life. Let's start by defining a very interesting concept called the utility function. The Utility Function In Economics, the utility function represents the satisfaction that consumers receive for choosing and consuming a product or service. D uring my B-school days, just like many of my batch-mates, I decided to define my own personal utility function. Hence, I want you to think of the utility function as something that you wish to define your own life with. It consists of variables one may wish to maximize/minimize in life. For example - one may wish to maximize their happiness and wealth while minimizing stress. Your own utility function may contain more than just one variable. Mine would read something like this: My aim in life is to maximize these. With this in mind, I have defined the habits that I need to get ...