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This is where you’ll get up-to-date information on habits, productivity, solopreneurship, and financial independence. 

Here is what we’ll cover in today’s issue:

● How to Create Fun Life Experiments

● I Need Your Help!

● 1% Better Life

● 41 Success Habits Thread

● My Latest Side Hustle

● The Resource Roundup

● Unlock Free Stuff

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📈 How to Create Fun Life Experiments

The scientific method has led to more progression in technology and understanding of the laws of nature in the past 100 years than in the tens of thousands of years of our recorded history.

It is undoubtedly one of the greatest tools for development and progress our civilization has had the privilege to use.

But, did you know you can use the scientific method to help you progress in your personal life?

In today’s featured article, I’ll introduce you to the “7 Day Life Experiments” principle, explore how to implement it into your life and give you a good idea of what results you can expect from following this method.

Life Experiments (An Overview)

Life experiments are a straightforward way to see if something is a positive or negative for you.

It’s a way to use empirical evidence (anything that is proven by experimentation and observation) to your advantage, and it’s also a way of pushing through barriers that you might have set up in past attempts to improve your life or complete a goal.

While it might seem daunting to set up experiments, it’s straightforward, and what’s even better, the simpler and easier you can make your experiments the more effective your results will be.

As an example, last summer, I created a life experiment to track every calorie that I consumed. 

The result?  

I lost 20 pounds in a few months.

Here’s a Twitter thread that details what happened:

Now, if you want to start setting up your own life experiments, here is a brief 5-step overview.

Step 1: Select Your Timeframe

The first thing you need to decide is how long your experiment is going to be.

Recommendations include:

● 7 days

● 14 days

● 21 days

● 28 days (or however many days are in that month)

There is no wrong timeframe - but you should let your experiment run for at least 7 days.

The shorter experiments can be good for more radical changes, for example;

● You’re experimenting with a completely new diet and you want to see how you feel/if you enjoy the diet after a week.

● You’re experimenting with a radically different way of working and want to analyze what results you get at the end of the week.

Anything that causes large changes in your day-to-day life makes the best candidate for shorter experiments.

Longer experiments could look something like this:

● Drinking 2 glasses of water a day.

● Doing an hour of uninterrupted work every day.

● Keeping a gratitude journal.

● Doing a 10-minute walk every day.

● Practicing meditation for 5 - 10 minutes a day.

● Tracking how many calories you consume in a week.

These are short, smaller changes to your daily routine that can be sustained for a longer time.

Step 2: Select and Simplify

An important but overlooked step is to do one experiment at a time.

This is the scientific equivalent of “isolating variables” - all this means is keeping as many things the same as possible.

If you engage in more than one experiment at a time it can become increasingly difficult to see what impact that experiment had.

When you change just one “variable” in your life, you can much more easily see what the positive and negative impacts are.

It’s also vital to simplify your experiment as much as possible but not too much.

For example: “eat healthy” for two weeks isn’t an experiment but “eat only whole foods” is.

Why?

Because the first is a vague statement, the second tells anyone what you intend to do over two weeks (eat only whole foods).

Step 3: Take Action and Embrace Change

Once you’ve identified your experiment, how long it will last, and when you’re going to start, it’s time to take action.

For example, if you decided to eat only whole foods for two weeks as your experiment, and you’re not 100 percent confident on what to do then you need to acquire as much information as possible about whole foods.

Then make immediate changes to your diet by throwing out all the processed food and replacing it with whole foods.

You must stick to the experiment timeframe because even positive and healthy changes to your routine can still cause negative emotions for the first day or two.

Step 4: Collect and Examine Your Data

An important part of experimentation is collecting data and seeing what you can learn from it.

Fortunately, this is the part where you have more options than a traditional scientist.

Your “data” in this case can be anything from objective numbers to subjective insight.

For example - in the case of the “eat whole foods diet for two weeks” experiment you could simply weigh yourself at the end of the two weeks.

However, you could also ask yourself some more subjective questions:

● Did you feel good on a whole-food diet?

● Did you feel you had more endurance or focus during the day?

● Have you noticed any improvements in sleep, exercise, productivity, etc?

● On a scale of 1-10, how much did you feel the positive impacts of [insert lifestyle change]?

Writing down questions and answering them at the end of (or during) your experiment is a good way to both collect and assess usable “data”.

How you collect your data is up to you.

For most of my life experiments, I use a simple Google Sheet that is connected to a Todoist task that shows up daily. 

Step 5: Modify the Experiment and Review

This final step is all about confirming if you will continue with a lifestyle change or if you’ll discard it or adjust it.

For shorter experiments, this process tends to be speedy, for example:

● Drank two glasses of water a day - skin cleared up, felt better during the day - continue the experiment.

● Meditate every day for 5 minutes - generally feel less anxious and less reactive - continue the experiment.

For longer experiments, the review process might be a bit different.

For example, let’s take the whole foods diet experiment - a good way to look at this is to look at all the positives and negatives (from the data and subjective insights the experiment yielded).

On the positive side, your data tells you that:

● You’ve lost 10 pounds over two weeks.

● You sleep better.

● You have more endurance and generally feel more productive.

On the negative side, your experiment has yielded these insights:

● You can’t enjoy as many things with friends and family (meals out, dessert treats, etc).

● Cooking everything from scratch is consuming more time than you thought.

● You’re starting to miss and crave some of your favorite snacks.

You’ve noticed some real positive results from your experiment and you don’t want to bin it entirely, so you make these adjustments for the next two weeks:

● You stick to whole foods for 6 days of the week instead of the entire week.

● You allow yourself to buy things like stock/sauces/other ingredients that are processed but that have minimal preservatives and additives.

You keep the changes low intentionally to see if this works for you rather than radically changing the entire experiment and losing any forward progress you’ve made.

Final Thoughts on Life Experiments

Life experiments are a way to harness the power of change by using the raw power of scientific observation and thinking.

This method allows you to benefit from positive lifestyle switches by making incremental changes in your life.

They’re great if you want to build new habits, but you don’t want to make a full-blown commitment to completely change your life.

My advice?

Think of one area of your life that you’d like to improve and commit to making one change over the next seven days.

🆘 I Need Your Help

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⚙️ 1% Better Life

Here’s a quick way to get better at avoiding procrastination. 

The idea here is to build what’s called “the awareness habit.”

Check out this short thread to learn more:

💲Wealth Building Wisdom

There are lot of lessons I’ve learned over the past few decades – especially when it comes building wealth (and a business.)

So here are 41 success habit that I wish I knew in my 20s:

https://x.com/habitsguy/status/1790347092071760070

💡 Solopreneurship Spotlight

One side hustle I’ve been exploring lately is the strategy of creating printables on Etsy. 

Specifically, my team is putting together a series of templates and worksheets related to building habits and increasing productivity. 

(You can see a few products that we just published here.)

To be honest, I have no idea if this will be profitable or not. 

But I like the idea of creating digital assets that will help grow this newsletter, while also generating a little bit of passive income on the side.

We are using the E-printables Side Hustle Course to learn how all this works.

So if you would like to learn more about this process, they offer a free workshop that details how to get started with printables. 

🗂️ The Resource Roundup

2️⃣ The Two Day Rule – Matt D’Avella shares how the 2-Day Rule helped him improve his fitness and create a consistent exercise habit. The rule is simple: never take more than a day off for whatever workout you’re doing. He posits that the 2-Day Rule has a ripple effect on other habits, leading to a healthier and more alert lifestyle.

🕶️ Strategic ignorance – George Mack talks about the underrated skill of strategic ignorance to help manage today’s overwhelming flood of information. Instead of trying to know everything, embrace not knowing as a strength and direct your focus where it can make a real impact.

💤 7 types of rest to avoid burnout – Mitchell Cohen shares the required 7 types of rest to avoid burnout: physical, mental, emotional, sensory, creative, social, and spiritual.

🌊 How to enter ‘flow state’ on command – Big Think asks Steven Kotler, author of The Art of Impossible, to talk about the “flow state,” which is often described as ‘effortless effort,’ where time dilates and intuition is heightened. Kotler talks about the “golden rule” to flow, flow state triggers, and the role curiosity plays in motivation.

🏀 Kobe Bryant – “Failure Doesn’t Exist.” – In this old interview of the late Kobe Bryant, he advocated for a mindset of playing to learn and grow rather than being driven solely by fear of failure or the desire to win. He emphasized that failure is not a permanent setback but rather an opportunity for growth and improvement, so don't be afraid of it.

Well, that’s it for today.

I hope you enjoy your weekend!

Talk soon

Cheers,

Steve Scott 

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