Yearly review and Prep/50 best podcasts 2018

Here's some interesting stuff from Tim Ferris:

Reviewing the past year and prepping for the next:

1. Grab a notepad and create two columns: POSITIVE and NEGATIVE.
2. Go through your calendar from the last year, looking at every week.
3. For each week, jot down on the pad any people or activities or commitments that triggered peak positive or negative emotions for that month. Put them in their respective columns.
4. Once you’ve gone through the past year, look at your notepad list and ask, “What 20% of each column produced the most reliable or powerful peaks?”
5. Based on the answers, take your “positive” leaders and schedule more of them in the new year. Get them on the calendar now! Book things with friends and prepay for activities/events/commitments that you know work. It’s not real until it’s in the calendar. That’s step one. Step two is to take your “negative” leaders, put “NOT-TO-DO LIST” at the top, and put them somewhere you can see them each morning for the first few weeks of 2019. These are the people and things you *know* make you miserable, so don’t put them on your calendar out of obligation, guilt, FOMO, or other nonsense.

While on this by the way I have to make a massive recommendation for Tim's Podcast with Mycologist and all round amazing guy Paul Stamets.

• #340: Paul Stamets — How Mushrooms Can Save You and (Perhaps) the World

To say it was amazing was an understatement.  Do give it a listen.

Here's also a list of the fifty best podcasts.  These have become a big thing for me and are a new intersection between books and journals.  But you do have to discriminate.

The 50 Best Podcast Episodes of 2018.