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The map of everything on becoming better: philosophy of character (Stoicism first), learning, communication, habits, attention, and self-esteem. Each sub-section has its own hub; the book library is grouped at the bottom.
Stoicism → 60.12.1 Stoicism
The flagship section. The operating system under most of the rest of this folder.
- Core concepts: Dichotomy of Control · Courage · Ego · Fear & Anxiety · Forgiveness · Sympathy vs Empathy · People's Reactions
- Primary texts: Meditations - Marcus Aurelius · The Complete Works - Epictetus · Letters on Ethics - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
- Modern guides: The Practicing Stoic · A Handbook for the New Stoics · Discipline Is Destiny · 79-story audit
- Canvases: Stoicism (file not included in this release) · Stoic Virtues (file not included in this release)
Learning → Learning
- Method: Active Learning · Lean Learning · Feynman Effect · Best Way to Learn Large Subject · How To Learn So Fast It’s Almost Unfair
- Reading: How to Read a Book - Mortimer J Adler Charles Van Doren · Process to Read a Book · Reading Hard Books · Book Marking System
- Memory: Memory Retrieval Techniques · Method of Loci
- Mental models: The Great Mental Models
- Writing & notes: I’m begging you to write essays · How to Use Writing to Improve Your Thinking — Atul Gawande · My FULL Obsidian Zettelkasten Workflow in 10 minutes · In Obsidian
- The Complete English Literature Reading List · AI Prompts · How to Practice from ChatGPT
Communication → Communication
- The full Communication Skills Operating System (presence, clarity, listening, conflict, leadership language) lives in the hub note
- Articulation · How to articulate your thoughts more clearly than 99% of people · Speaking · Persuasion
- Assertive vs Passive Voice · Confident Delivery Calibrated Claims · Conversationist Research
- Cross-vault → Rhetoric & Persuasion (MOC) · Argumentation quotes
Habits, Discipline & Productivity → Habit Building-Discipline-Time Management-Productivity
- Procrastination · Discipline Expert The Habit That Will Make Or Break Your Entire 2026! · 7 keys to a productive life · 90% of Time issues stem from
- Key books: Atomic Habits · Deep Work - Cal Newport · Getting Things Done · The ONE Thing · The Power of Discipline
- Home systems → Declutter Your Home
- Cross-vault → discipline story theme · Discipline quotes · Determination quotes · Success quotes
Mindfulness & Attention → Mindfulness-Attention
- Peak Mind - 4 Week Meditation Plan · 9 Ways to be Still Right Now
- Key books: Peak Mind · The Power of Now · Stillness Speaks · The Way of Zen
- Cross-vault → Enlightenment quotes
Self-Esteem, Confidence & Happiness → Self-Esteem-Confidence-Happiness
- Identity · Depression · Distorted Automatic Thoughts · Addiction
- Key books: The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem · The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck · The Happiness Hypothesis · Psycho-Cybernetics, A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life
- Cross-vault → Self-Esteem quotes · Happiness quotes · Positivity quotes · Fear quotes
Other topics
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The Daily Laws - Robert Greene — Greene’s daily synthesis of mastery, power, persuasion, strategy, and human nature · 85-story audit
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Applied growth and work → Heroes of Progress · Lifespan · Profit First
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Leadership · Life Improvement · Insights · Self Improvement Misc Notes
Book Library (highlights)
🏔️ Meaning & resilience
⚙️ Habits, focus & productivity
Atomic Habits · Deep Work - Cal Newport · Digital Minimalism - Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World · Getting Things Done · The ONE Thing · Do It Today · The Now Habit · The Miracle Morning · The Power of Less - Leo Babauta · Manage Your Day-to-Day · The Bullet Journal · Checklist Manifesto - Atul Gawande · The 4-Hour Workweek · The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People · The 10X Rule · Building a Second Brain
🧠 Mind & psychology
Psycho-Cybernetics, A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life · The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem · The Happiness Hypothesis · Stumbling on Happiness · Authentic Happiness- Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment · Predictably Irrational - The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions · Sway - The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior · Nudge - Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness · Kluge - The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind · Choice Theory - A New Psychology of Personal Freedom · Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain - How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves · Your Erroneous Zones · The Science of Fear · The Culture of Fear - Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things
🏆 Mastery & talent
🧘 Zen & spirit
The Power of Now · A New Earth · Stillness Speaks · The Way of Zen · An Introduction to Zen Buddhism · Buddha - A Story of Enlightenment · The Wisdom of Insecurity · Remember, Be Here Now · The Relaxation Response · Constructive Living · The Positive Psychology of Buddhism and Yoga - Paths to A Mature Happiness · Urban Shaman
🤝 Social & relationships
🛠️ Practical & tactical
Bushcraft 101 by Dave Canterbury · Spy Secrets That Can Save Your Life · Street Smarts · Principles of Personal Defense · Practical Pistol Reloaded · The Modern Day Gunslinger · Skills and Drills · Play Your Best Pool · Unlimited Memory · The Memory Book · Power Reading - The Best, Fastest, Easiest, Most Effective Course on Speedreading and Comprehension Ever Developed! · The Easy Way to Stop Smoking · Sober on a Drunk Planet
Full inventory in the folder tree below and the database (file not included in this release).
Base index
Self-Improvement.base (file not included in this release)
🌳 Full folder tree (maintained by the Waypoint plugin)
- 7 keys to a productive life
- 9 Ways to be Still Right Now
- 60.12.1 Stoicism
- 90% of Time issues stem from
- Addiction
- Articulation
- Assertive vs Passive Voice
- Book How to Stay in Touch
- Books
- A New Earth
- An Introduction to Zen Buddhism
- Antifragile
- Aspire by Kevin Hall and Stephen R. Covey
- Atomic Habits
- Authentic Happiness- Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment
- Beliefs- Pathways to Health & Well-Being
- Buddha - A Story of Enlightenment
- Building a Second Brain
- Bushcraft 101 by Dave Canterbury
- Checklist Manifesto - Atul Gawande
- Choice Theory - A New Psychology of Personal Freedom
- Constructive Living
- Declutter Your Home - Mary Connor
- Deep Work - Cal Newport
- Digital Minimalism - Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
- Do It Today
- Every Day Is Game Day
- Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
- Forgiveness Is a Choice
- Getting Things Done
- Go It Alone! by Bruce Judson
- Hacking Your Education
- Heroes of Progress - Alexander C R Hammond
- Hold Me Tight by Sue Johnson
- How to be a Gentleman
- How to Make a Journal of Your Life
- How to Stay in Touch
- Ignore Everybody by Hugh MacLeod Highlights
- Kluge - The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind
- Level Up - Rob Dial
- Lifespan - David A Sinclair Matthew D LaPlante
- Living With a SEAL
- Main Street Millionaire - Codie Sanchez
- Manage Your Day-to-Day
- Mans Search for Meaning
- Mastering Real Estate Investment - Frank Gallinelli
- Mastery - The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment
- Mastery
- Millionaire Teacher - Andrew Hallam
- Nudge - Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
- Peak Mind
- Personal Development for Smart People - The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth
- Play Your Best Pool
- Power Reading - The Best, Fastest, Easiest, Most Effective Course on Speedreading and Comprehension Ever Developed!
- Practical Pistol Reloaded
- Predictably Irrational - The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
- Principles - Ray Dalio
- Principles of Personal Defense
- Professional Real Estate Development - Richard B. Peiser
- Profit First - Mike Michalowicz
- Psycho-Cybernetics, A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life
- Remember, Be Here Now
- Sizing People Up
- Skills and Drills
- Sober on a Drunk Planet
- Spy Secrets That Can Save Your Life
- Start - Punch Fear in the Face
- Stillness Speaks
- Street Smarts
- Stumbling on Happiness
- Sway - The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior
- Talent Is Overrated
- The 2-Hour Cocktail Party - Nick Gray
- The 4-Hour Workweek
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
- The 10X Rule
- The 50th Law
- The Art of Clear Thinking - Hasard Lee
- The Bullet Journal
- The Conquest of Happiness
- The Culture of Fear - Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things
- The Daily Laws - Robert Greene
- The Easy Way to Stop Smoking
- The Great Mental Models General Thinking Concepts - Farnam Street
- The Happiness Hypothesis
- The Manipulated Man
- The Many Faces of Journaling - Topics & Techniques for Personal Journal Writing
- The Memory Book
- The Miracle Morning
- The Modern Day Gunslinger
- The Now Habit
- The ONE Thing
- The Positive Psychology of Buddhism and Yoga - Paths to A Mature Happiness
- The Power of Discipline
- The Power of Intention
- The Power of Less - Leo Babauta
- The Power of Now
- The Productivityist Workbook
- The Psychology of Money - Morgan Housel
- The Relaxation Response
- The Science of Fear
- The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck
- The Talent Code - Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How
- The Way of Men with Maids - Giff Lasta
- The Way of the Superior Man
- The Way of Zen
- The Wisdom of Insecurity
- Think Faster Talk Smarter - Matt Abrahams
- Tools of Titans
- Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain - How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves
- Transforming Your Self - Becoming Who You Want to Be
- Unfuck Yourself
- Unlimited Memory
- Unlimited Power Featuring Tony Robbins Live!
- Urban Shaman
- Way of the Peaceful Warrior
- What's Your Problem
- When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi
- With Winning in Mind
- Your Erroneous Zones
- Communication
- Confident Delivery Calibrated Claims
- Depression
- Discipline Expert The Habit That Will Make Or Break Your Entire 2026!
- Distorted Automatic Thoughts
- Greatest Leaders in History - Peterson Academy
- Habit Building-Discipline-Time Management-Productivity
- How to articulate your thoughts more clearly than 99% of people
- How to fix your entire life in 1 day
- How to Live Life
- How To Make A Disrespectful Person Look Insecure For Insulting You
- Identity
- Ikigai
- Insights
- Jimmy Carr Diary of CEO Podcast
- Leadership
- Learning
- Active Learning
- Adversarial Debate Prep - A Learning Method
- AI Prompts
- Best Way to Learn Large Subject
- Book Marking System
- Dyslexia
- Feynman Effect
- Generation Effect
- How To Learn So Fast It’s Almost Unfair
- How to Practice from ChatGPT
- How to Read a Book - Mortimer J Adler Charles Van Doren
- How to Study Like a Philosophy PhD Student - ParkNotes
- How to take notes
- How to Use Writing to Improve Your Thinking — Atul Gawande
- I’m begging you to write essays
- In Obsidian
- Lean Learning
- Learning Checklist
- Memory Retrieval Techniques
- Method of Loci
- My FULL Obsidian Zettelkasten Workflow in 10 minutes
- Note taking
- Process to Read a Book
- Reading Hard Books
- Life Improvement
- Male-Female Polarity
- Mindfulness-Attention
- Opportunity-Seeking Mindset
- Persuasion
- Procrastination
- Self Improvement Misc Notes
- Self Resect over Self-Love
- Self-Esteem-Confidence-Happiness
- Speaking
Filed captures and working notes — October 2026
Personal development and source notes
- Greatest Leaders in History - Peterson Academy — preserved working note or source capture
- How To Make A Disrespectful Person Look Insecure For Insulting You — preserved working note or source capture
- How to Live Life — preserved working note or source capture
- How to fix your entire life in 1 day — preserved working note or source capture
- Ikigai — preserved working note or source capture
- Jimmy Carr Diary of CEO Podcast — preserved working note or source capture
- Self Resect over Self-Love — preserved working note or source capture
Filed library attachment
- The Daily Laws — Robert Greene (PDF) (file not included in this release) — source book PDF moved from the capture folder; no reading or annotation completion is implied.