Welcome to my website

My name is Willliam, and here is my website containing my principles

Philosophies

  1. I believe you need to measure progress and todos in weeks, not months or days
    1. A day is too short. You can't do very much of significance inside of a day on a reliable basis
    2. A month is too long. Work expands to the time you allocate it.
    3. A week is perfect, it gives you enough time to finish something of significance, but not enough to waste time
    4. A week is 2% of the year
  2. You need to filter your information rigorously
    1. Your mind can only store a finite amount of information.
      1. You remember about 30% of your day. Everything you see, touch, hear or smell is competing to be remembered
        1. You forget 70% of everything
    2. Furthermore, the information you consume changes your worldview and how you view the world
      1. With enough time, you can create the mindset of anything you want
      2. Change your mindset very deliberately.
        1. If you don't, the algorithm will do it for you
  3. You need to make your life high signal
    1. Signal is anything important or useful
      1. The opposite is noise; anything that is useless or unimportant
    2. Signal is most commonly viewed as the information you intake
      1. This can be high quality news, podcasts or books
      2. Signal is viewed less as tasks
        1. This can be working on the most important thing in your projects
        2. Or removing commitments to things not progressing you're mission
      3. You need to focus on both.
        1. Work on the most important tasks while deliberately ignoring everything else
    3. You need to have less then 40% noise in your life if you want to be extraordinary .
      1. Pick a ratio of signal to noise where signal is greater than 60.
        1. Ignore any noise greater than the ratio you have allocated
      2. It is almost impossible to have a 100% signal life. It is very difficult as sometimes noise is dealing with a family emergency.
        1. Elon Musk has a 100% signal life and it has made him accomplish extraordinary feats
  4. You need to have a north star
    1. It can be S.M.A.R.T or it can be more vague
      1. If it's S.M.A.R.T it will force you to pick a new goal in life after you accomplish it
        1. But the definition and goal post will never move
        2. Furthermore, it will allow you to create a completely different lifestyle when you accomplish it
        3. Example: Make a million dollars by the age of 26
      2. If it's vague, the definition will change
        1. But it will never go away
        2. Example: live an extraordinary life
    2. You need to make more life decisions based on it
      1. Big and small
      2. It is a requirement that anything signal has to progress your north star
        1. Perhaps even create a ratio of decisions that are noise having to be signal
    3. Without a northstar, you will not be creating your ideal life
      1. Even if you are deliberately creating habits, reading books or anything else it will be randomly assorted
      2. It is better to invest that energy into one mission
        1. 5% progress on 20 areas of life vs 80% percent progress on 1 thing and 20% in other areas
    4. We'll call this your mission
  5. Be obsessed
    1. Someone doing it someday will lose to someone doing it as a hobby who will lose to someone doing at a profession who lastly will lose to someone being obsessed
    2. Go all in
      1. It doesn't matter what it is, just go all in
      2. Read everything you can about it
      3. Morph your algorithm into it
    3. This has to progress your mission
  6. Enter deep work
    1. Read deep work by Cal Newport
    2. Read Getting things done by David Allen
    3. Read hyperfocus by Chris Bailey
    4. Work one hour a day minimum in deepwork
    5. Track hours done inside of deepwork as your Key Performance Indicator, not how many things you've finished
  7. Create your life's principles
    1. Ben Frank (founding father) had 12 rules for life
    2. These are the things you live by
    3. Change these, morph them until they become extremely useful
      1. Remove ones that don't work
  8. Steal everything
    1. Don't make something 3% different from the original, take 3% from the original and many others until you have something both unique, useful and beautiful
      1. Be honest about it
    2. Study the people who've done what you want to do but at the elite level
      1. Steal their principles, habits and anything you find useful
      2. Don't copy one person entirely; pick and choose from many different greats