What Is Your Best High-yield Personal Development Practice

[Joseph Maynor]

This question is inspired by Leo's vid "3 Steps to be ruthlessly effective at anything."

Leo talks about finding one high-yield practice that gives good results and then running with that to get success with some endeavor.

I want to see what high-yield practices people do that gives them the majority of their results in personal development.

Mine: lifestyle minimalism.  I've really exploited this hack to make room for what I should be working on.  

 

[ChimpBrain]

Meditation in my backyard listening to the birds. It makes me happy and improves the whole rest of my day.

[Dan Arnautu]

Oddly enough, a meditation practice alone will cover almost all other specific problems that may occur during your personal development.

For example:

• no anger issues
• no need to be right in an argument and thus you get the best outcome
• insecurities pretty much disappear because you start to live more and more in the present moment and insecurity doesn't exist there - it can only live in the past or future (and thus in your mind)
• fears start to melt
• your sleep quality improves and your sleep quota may go down from 8 hours to 4-6 hours because your body does not actually need sleep; it needs rest - if you would sit into a deep meditative state all day it would be like your are deep asleep but at the same time totally awake. Cool effect, huh?
• your focus improves
• your creativity improves
• etc.

You get the point. You don't even need to read ”How to read friends and influence people” if you have a meditation practice. What is needed will start to manifest on it's own, with no conscious effort

Second best I think would be reading and researching in general.

Edited June 16, 2017 by Dan Arnautu

[Progress]

@Dan Arnautu Meditation also may cause the problem, at least temporarily. And yes you might need to read a few books. Both knowledge and desire should flow through being(meditation being the action to realize being), books helping with the two formers. I like to have pet theories/phases for a day or two, they really manifest themselves and have longterm consequences. Also discovering flow and exploration although I hold it somewhat secondary towards theory is the source of the theory in the first place; The theory being more of the product of such.