Sahil Bloom

If it ends up being five and you had a transformative year, great.

If it's one, but it's really meaningful, also great.

The way that I think about getting under this, because when I first looked at this question, it's kind of challenging.

It's like, well, I don't really know.

What did I think in the past?

What did I think now?

The way that I do this is I open up my calendar.

So like if you open up your Google calendar or whatever you use for a calendar, go look back at your calendar from January of 2025.

Look at some of your weeks, some of the activities, some of the opportunities you were working on, some of the people you were spending time with.

Place yourself in those shoes, like in the shoes of the person that was engaging in those activities from back then.

And think about what were your core behaviors, your mindsets, your habits, the people you were spending time with, the things, the ways you were thinking about the world.

Like actually go back and think about who you were in those moments.

And then think about what am I cringing at right now about that younger version of myself?

Like what about that younger version of myself is making me sort of feel that like that cringe sensation?

That to me is the most sort of simple and fundamental way to get underneath where you have changed.

Like what have you changed your mind on?

Because it's the things that make you cringe about that younger self.

Yeah, and I think the calendar... I'm a big believer in just the simplest tools because every productivity guru on the internet will sell you some expensive productivity solution or some expensive second brain or whatever the thing gets called.

And

What I found in my own experience working with some of those things is that you end up moving a whole lot, but not actually making progress on things.