--- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFLsJvCDLoQ Collection:: [[Deep Questions with Cal Newport]] ## Notes - [[The Deep Life Stack]] ## Highlights Starting with Discipline for Identity Formation Key takeaways: - Discipline is an identity, not just an action - Cultivating discipline requires effort - Incorporating disciplined elements into your life can help establish the identity of being disciplined - Starting with small elements can build a foundation for discipline in larger areas of life Transcript: Speaker 1 I really do see discipline as an identity. It is not something you do. It is an identity. You see yourself as someone who is disciplined or you don't. That requires some cultivation. At the very bottom of the deep life stack and this is why I've highlighted this, you would get started by putting some elements into your life that require discipline to accomplish. ([Time 0:08:44](https://share.snipd.com/snip/8d22906e-a990-41c4-83cb-c29557b07f42)) Establishing a Discipline Project: Keeping Track of Commitments for Your Ultimate Life Planning Processes Summary: At the beginning, you could just have a folder on your desktop. You could have a drawer where you're just writing down, here's my discipline. I'm working on these two things. Here's what I do every day towards them. Transcript: Speaker 1 At the beginning, you could just have a folder on your desktop. You could have a drawer where you're just writing down, here's my discipline. I'm working on these two things. Here's what I do every day towards them. ([Time 0:10:31](https://share.snipd.com/snip/2e63f5f1-1c9a-489b-b9fa-6f002b7bbe49)) - 💭 Weekly and periodic reviews to establish discipline step Establishing Your Values: The Importance of Code, Rituals, and Routines Summary: There's three pieces to figuring out what your values are going to be. I'll write them all three down and then we'll talk about it. Code, rituals, routines. This is committing to what is important to you. We move on to the next layer. What are the truths that exist rooted outside of just your own preferences around which you were going to structure your life? And this is where you are going to establish what it is that is important toYou. Transcript: Speaker 1 We move on to the next layer. I'll write this in here. We'll call this values. All right. We're not yet choosing to quit your job. We're not yet the moving. This is where you are going to establish what it is that is important to you. What are the truths that exist rooted outside of just your own preferences around which you were going to structure your life? This is committing to what is important to you. There's three pieces to figuring out what your values are going to be. I'll write them all three down and then we'll talk about it. Code, rituals, routines. ([Time 0:11:31](https://share.snipd.com/snip/d9d01c01-ce93-4b50-b4ea-3304c5c0bc8d)) Living by a Code: The Importance of Setting Principles and Rituals in Life Transcript: Speaker 1 Code is actually figuring out this is my code that I live by. I strive to do this. I will never do this. I have integrity. I am honest. I will prioritize the protection of others. Whatever it is, this is where you make that clear. I have a code by which I live and all of my decisions are going to come back and make sure that they satisfy this code. All my big decisions. All my short-term actions will live by this code. The code should be something that forces you on occasion to do things that are hard or scary in the moment to move away what might be in your best interest. But you have a code written down. Then you have rituals recorded. Some sort of rituals that you commit to that help just reinforce in your life what it is that you value and take seriously. ([Time 0:12:17](https://share.snipd.com/snip/d3a88f69-f7ac-46fa-b810-eea650fd7594)) Living by a Code: The Importance of Setting Principles and Rituals in Life Transcript: Speaker 1 Code is actually figuring out this is my code that I live by. I strive to do this. I will never do this. I have integrity. I am honest. I will prioritize the protection of others. Whatever it is, this is where you make that clear. I have a code by which I live and all of my decisions are going to come back and make sure that they satisfy this code. All my big decisions. All my short-term actions will live by this code. The code should be something that forces you on occasion to do things that are hard or scary in the moment to move away what might be in your best interest. But you have a code written down. Then you have rituals recorded. Some sort of rituals that you commit to that help just reinforce in your life what it is that you value and take seriously. ([Time 0:12:17](https://share.snipd.com/snip/d3a88f69-f7ac-46fa-b810-eea650fd7594)) Living by a Code: The Importance of Setting Principles and Rituals in Life Key takeaways: - Having a personal code to live by ensures that all decisions align with one's values and priorities - The personal code should be something that challenges one's comfort zone and pushes them to do what is right - Documenting rituals can help reinforce values and priorities in one's life Transcript: Speaker 1 Code is actually figuring out this is my code that I live by. I strive to do this. I will never do this. I have integrity. I am honest. I will prioritize the protection of others. Whatever it is, this is where you make that clear. I have a code by which I live and all of my decisions are going to come back and make sure that they satisfy this code. All my big decisions. All my short-term actions will live by this code. The code should be something that forces you on occasion to do things that are hard or scary in the moment to move away what might be in your best interest. But you have a code written down. Then you have rituals recorded. Some sort of rituals that you commit to that help just reinforce in your life what it is that you value and take seriously. Finally, you're going to have routines, things you do on a regular basis that ensure that you are supporting these values that are encoded in your code that make sure that you are pursuing them reflecting the things you value in your everyday life. ([Time 0:12:17](https://share.snipd.com/snip/d3a88f69-f7ac-46fa-b810-eea650fd7594)) How to Create Code, Rituals, and Routines Key takeaways: - Have a code by which to live and make decisions that satisfy the code - Record rituals that help reinforce values and take them seriously - Establish routines to support values and pursue them in everyday life - Religion can provide pre-packaged answers to code, rituals, and routines Transcript: Speaker 1 Code is actually figuring out this is my code that I live by. I strive to do this. I will never do this. I have integrity. I am honest. I will prioritize the protection of others. Whatever it is, this is where you make that clear. I have a code by which I live and all of my decisions are going to come back and make sure that they satisfy this code. All my big decisions. All my short-term actions will live by this code. The code should be something that forces you on occasion to do things that are hard or scary in the moment to move away what might be in your best interest. But you have a code written down. Then you have rituals recorded. Some sort of rituals that you commit to that help just reinforce in your life what it is that you value and take seriously. Finally, you're going to have routines, things you do on a regular basis that ensure that you are supporting these values that are encoded in your code that make sure that you are pursuing them reflecting the things you value in your everyday life. Now, of course, the most obvious pre-packaged answer to these three things would be a traditional religion. If you are already religious, that's going to make it very easy for you to figure out code or rituals and routines. Or if you're religious, the rituals going to involve, for example, let's say your Muslim might involve daily prayer ritual as a way of reinforcing and reminding yourself of your relationship to God. ([Time 0:12:17](https://share.snipd.com/snip/66524fed-0dc8-4906-a0c0-4e85a1b2ef8b)) Emphasizing the Importance of Recording Values and Routines in the Discipline Level of the Stack Key takeaways: - Don't worry too much about getting the stack exactly right as it will evolve over time. - Record everything you figure out for values in the system set up during the first level of the stack. - That's where you record routines, rituals, and plans for how to live your life. Transcript: Speaker 1 You can do so on your own. The thing I want to emphasize here is don't worry so much about getting this exactly right because when we're done with this stack, we're going to add one final piece, which is iterate. So you come to the stack where you are in your life right now and you can expect that might change and evolve as time goes on. Now everything you're going to figure out here for values gets recorded in that system you set up during the first level of the stack during discipline. That's why I'm drawing an arrow back down there. That's where you record. I code to things I value, things I don't, how I plan to live my life. That's where you record your rituals. I meditate every morning. I read a book of philosophy, one book per month. I observe Shabbat as a time to reflect whatever it is. It's where the routines go in. I volunteer every month. Whatever it is actually going to be, I go to services, whatever it is, this is all written down. ([Time 0:14:01](https://share.snipd.com/snip/f8a6c275-ad84-4915-8f7c-c2839775cac0)) ### New highlights added June 12, 2023 at 6:21 PM The Importance of Discipline and Value as Insurance for Disaster Key takeaways: - The speaker introduces the concept of life design types - The calm life design type aims to gain control over one's life - Organizational productivity systems are important in the calm life design type - Managing time and obligations is a key aspect of the calm life design type Transcript: Speaker 1 Life design type waters. And that's going to be what I call calm. So the goal with calm is to gain control over your life and to leverage that control to give yourself breathing room. So it's the calm level of the stack where you are actually going to start thinking about organizational productivity systems. How do I keep track of the different obligations in my professional life and my personal life? How do I plan? How do I manage my time? This is all about I have control. 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