The 2022 recap

Good evening,

The holiday season is upon us. I think its extremely important to spend some time away from the daily routine to reset and reflect, so this is the final note of the year.

This is simply a thank you for joining me on the journey so far with Plane Thoughts, and a summary all the posts thus far for those wanting to catch up on past editions.

1. Improving solo-decision making: Asking yourself questions twice as a strategy for improving accuracy of judgements when you can't get independent outside opinions

2. The paradox of choice: Reducing the costs of making choices

3. The post-mortem: Examining our failings to improve future decisions

4. Keeping focused on the long term: A simple question to better visualise your future self and delay gratification

5. Turning the best choice into the default choice: Using rules to eliminate willpower

6. The importance of quiet time: Setting time aside to let your mind wander

7. Overconfidence: Confidence is great, but don't let your guard down

8. Cross-discipline learning: Looking outside our field can boost success inside of it

9. Conducting an information audit: The importance of a good mental diet

10. Building a second brain to organise our lives: Personal knowledge management to improve productivity

11. Building habits around desired identity instead of desired outcomes

12. Writing to achieve clear thinking: Good writing requires good thinking, and clear writing exposes poor thinking.

Have a wonderful festive season, and see you in 2023.

Best wishes,

Alex Joshi.