This blog post focuses on The Happiness Equation by Neil Pasricha. My goals for this project
were to change my preconceived notions of what it means to be happy and live a successful
life. The book covers 9 secrets to achieving happiness through the equation “want nothing + do anything = have everything.” My project covers these 9 secrets and my interpretations of them, as well as some of the strategies offered in the book that I implemented in my life throughout this project.
Learning = Zombies + Chunking
For my project I wanted to completely change how I study. I chose to use the book “A Mind for Numbers” to learn new strategies to achieve this goal because it seemed to go over every aspect of how to learn and do well in school and was even geared more towards science students like myself. Broadly speaking, I had two main takeaways from this book (although there were several other specific strategies that it went over). They are learning to form new habits and use them to your advantage and “chunking”, the process of how your brain learns, processes, and stores information and how to make these “chunks” strong so you are able to use them later. Guided by what the book said, I developed several strategies that worked well for me and kept track of these mainly by using a weekly/ daily planner and a time blocking planner.
I Willpower through College
This project provides a glimpse into all of the strategies I used to obtain strong willpower.