Reading Pen Farming｜Special Notes: VAF ╳ AMA・Three Ways to Cultivate Habits

Participated in the AMA lecture held by Fangzi on the same day, and the speaker is @Neil . In the technology industry, in addition to being a full-time job, I also take into account the creators of self-media management...notes sorting and sharing.

 Remote workers, software engineers, self-media operators (the main force is IG, starting in 2019), content creators (the theme is habit force), holding Obnsidian lectures, and curating "habit-building" community activities.

■ Opportunity to start operating We Media

• When you encounter a bottleneck in your career, you consciously cannot do coding for a lifetime, and you lose the source of your sense of accomplishment.
• At that time, I came into contact with some YouTube content and was inspired. On the one hand, I wanted to cultivate the habit of reading, and on the other hand, I also wanted to try the self-media field.
• I used to think that reading was a very painful thing, and I only read books related to coding; later, after I developed the habit of reading, I liked most of the books that involved "self-growth" .
• In the beginning, I followed the storytelling channel on YouTube. Shocked by " Amazing Habit Power ", I decided to practice it myself and start small.

■ Application of self-growth system

• Recommended book list 1 " Amazing Habit Power ": Start small.
• Recommended book list 2 " Flexible Habits ": Use tiny habits as a "safety net" to ensure that you can reach the target every day and increase your self-confidence.

💡 thinking
Can't miss " Atomic Habit "! Integrate.

■ Creative inspiration

• From books, from the experience in the workplace, from the walk .
• Rely on the "self-questioning and self-answering" method to draw conclusions, and then do related creations.

📌 Everyone should be able to understand that it is usually easy to be bound by the "survival mode".

📌 The pressure and fear in the workplace are occupied in the head, which is very harmful to the creation, and there is no way to perceive and experience some things in life.

■ Creation inspiration record

• Give yourself a "blank" time to reflect, then read and listen to get inspired.
• I am used to using the note-taking software Obsidian to take notes (discussed at the end of the article).
• Continuing above, I didn't plan to record this as knowledge management, it's too serious. Instead, the "diary" is used as the starting point, and its content is gradually coordinated with life/work.

📌 The inspiration for content creation has a lot to do with your "niche market".

📌 Make good use of the framework of "setting unit" to help you focus and organize your inspiration , and help organize the materials in your life.

For example: from drinking coffee, think of the behavior of "why buy coffee every day", and then dismantle and analyze this habit.

• Observation 1 on IG: Audiences prefer to read texts that are "close to life", so after reading, they should try to resonate with their "own experience and experience" when they chew the content.
• Observation 2 on IG: The popularity of enriching the lazy bag and enriching dry goods is relatively low tide.

■ Content production and marketing strategies

• Usually, I think about the books I have read recently, or what I have realized in my life.
• When there is a specific purpose, a marketing strategy is developed.

For example: In order to hold an Obsidian lecture, I wanted to increase fans first (the relationship of the marketing funnel, we must first expand the audience base), so I came up with a "discussion slash" post that fits the theme of the lecture, and asked everyone to ask for a lazy bag , followed by a wave of hard marketing.

📌 Regarding marketing, you really have to try more, don't preconceived and presupposed to resist .

📌 Try a certain trick first, if you really don't like it or don't suit it, then don't use it.

■ How an introvert manages a community

• I am not a social personality, but because I have benefited from the community (the habit force has been developed), I really want to give back something to everyone. Take it from the community and use it in the community!
• Experience sharing 1: The media abandoned Zoom meetings and switched to LINE groups because of "anonymity".
• Experience sharing 2: It was the first time to organize an early bird check-in event. At the beginning, everyone was only required to say "good morning" in the group to finish the work, which was embarrassing. I was forced to make a breakthrough by myself , that is, planning a morning run in Daan Forest Park. But I was afraid that it would be very dry to leave after the run... In the end, I just asked everyone if they would like to have dinner together?
• Experience sharing 3: It is the second time to organize an early bird check-in event. With experience, I know that it is a weakness to organize offline events . This time, in order to maintain the freshness for 30 consecutive days, the design has different small tasks every day.

■ UGC activity on IG

• User Generated Content (UGC, User Generated Content).
• The first priority is to take care of the layout .

For example: a limited-time dynamic template must be good-looking in design, so that the audience will have the motivation to forward it.

■ Planning strategies for different platforms

• Podcast: One content for multiple platforms.

I encountered the problem of "survival mode" before and stopped for more than two months.

I found myself writing a diary even when I didn't create. So I started to think about whether it is possible to connect ordinary ideas with the theme of creation, and turn the diary into a "speech" ... Later, I thought of using Podcast as the initial version of the creative content, and then I wrote an article well, so that it can become more An IG post can also be turned into an e-newsletter!

📌 Content circulation, saving creative energy, more efficient and suitable for your own pace (with a regular job).

• Blog: Expand electronic registration form and deepen (email) interaction with readers.
• IG: The main force that I value most.

📌 Think clearly about the positioning of each platform.

📌Each platform has its "mechanism", it is very important to observe it and master it .

■ Creation and Income

• At first, I wanted to do online courses, but later I tried the water temperature by "holding lectures".
• The main reason is to "multi-party verification" to see the feasibility of creating income .

📌 Full-time creators are very close to starting a business.

📌 If you decide to invest, be sure to do these preparations: market research, emergency reserves, can you have a "multiple" source of income (if there is only a "single" source of income, it is still similar to office workers in some aspects)? How to realize the profit model?

■ Three habit force to develop the heart method

• People often pay attention to successful people. He has developed a habit, he is very self-disciplined, and he is a master of time management.
• Self-discipline is not necessarily related to success, it is the world that labels it.

For example: the ritual of getting up early → what do you do after getting up early, this is the key point → a day is more efficient and easier to reach the goal → one step closer to success.

• The habits of successful people, in the "short term", really work. But stretch the time scale, and it's easy to give up and fail.

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• After reading some books related to the "nervous system", the crux may be that people go through different stages in a day, and the body also has different "states", which will affect habit formation .

❶ Therefore, divide the day into different stages, and cultivate different types of habits according to the state of different stages, which is easier to maintain.

• The first stage ⏰ Focus on the first 8 hours after getting up, understand this feature, and do some "high threshold, high resistance" behavior patterns.
• The second stage ⏰ 9 to 15 hours after getting up, the body's dopamine decreases, and it is in a state of relaxation, and develop some "low threshold, low resistance" habits, such as body and mind, meditation, yoga, diary, reading... relatively no Burden; or used to strengthen the habit of "already taking shape" to help consolidate.
• The third stage ⏰ It is not advisable to be exposed to too much artificial light, and it is not advisable to eat late-night snacks, because it will affect the quality of sleep. At this time, it is not suitable to develop the habit of "consuming energy", and deep sleep is needed at this time.
• The above are the general rules in the book, and there are different situations that cannot be ruled out.

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❷ How small is the small action method?

• Everyone does not develop a habit from "zero". Let's first see how difficult this habit is for you.
• The secret is to frame "tiny" to the point of being ridiculous .

For example: If you only read one page of a book, most of them will exceed the standard. The intention is to achieve a small milestone of your own.

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❸ Program memory method

• Simulate the situation in your mind. The more detailed and specific each step is, the better .
• The brain will have an impression of this specific situation and specific order. Using this feature to prepare the brain for "pre-rehearsal" will increase the probability of doing this (habit).

■ What features do you like about Obsidian

• Stay focused 1: Offline without internet.
• Stay Focused 2: Lots of open source plugins, but hidden in the background and won't interfere with the vision.
• Built-in diary function to help you start your own state.

📌 Being honest with yourself, telling the whole thing before and after, becomes effective self-talk, which is very helpful for executing something.

📌 Later, I changed the "Morning Essays" into a "Creative Diary" that suits my own pace. I don't have to bet on writing in the early morning... Let the content written down can be used in conjunction with my work.

• Support markdown syntax to easily create formatted files.
• Two-way link: useful when managing projects.

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