It's been five days. I was eager to type it down yesterday. This journal has a book review and some computer programme reviews...
📒ATOMIC HABITS is a productivity centric one. (The author boasts about his credibility, something the book 📗'Fuck anxiety' talks about explicitly. The authors rightfully believe earning the reader's trust beforehand is a nice move.) Coming to the main parts, aka what 'Atomic habits' narrates...
🍉1. Literally Distance yourself for the habits you wanna quit. Hiding the trigger objects helps.
🍊2. Start small. Microscopic. Try in the smallest doses first. I'm trying my hand on video editing currently, and I'm doing it super slow. It'll become a habit.
🥝3. Associate one pleasant action with your goal. A good example was trying pushups just before lunch, as soon as I close the laptop. It's so specific the instructions, necessarily so.
🍄4. Journaling, and maintaining attendance... maintaining regular progress. A day off is alright. Two consecutive days though, breaks habit.
🥦5. refining your system to get on with better habits is most productive. Like, hiding cigarettes and keeping the yoga mat in sight.
🥑6. The four laws : Make it obvious, make it attractive, make it easy, and make it satisfying.
Ummm... Do I need to read it again? I feel like I'm not crystal clear with the definitions.
💻 Coming to the computer programmes... I tried my hand on Video-Editing for my short movie 'An Interview with the mirror'. Davinci resolve is not the easiest to learn. Hitfilm express can be simpler. Heck all the video editing programmes can use bigger buttons. Conversely I tried AutoCAD too. It's used to design models of everything. It was pretty good. Easier. If ever you wanna design your own home, do it yourself. Learning it doesn't take more than a week imo. You'll be proud of yourself with the design.
That's what I did for five days. Audiobooks and exercise, and computers and shows. I'll give you a recommendation... 'The Godfather of Harlem'. It's a Gangster show... Based on Bumpy Johnson. There's even a movie on him. It's American Gangster. I'm high on Gangster content. Not the violent part of it, but how those men dress themselves. I admire the authority they command. Am I phrasing it right?
I'll tell you how I feel about the more famous Gangster content in the coming ones. Laters world👋
