Personal Growth
Here are my resources to help you with your personal growth.
Please email me if you have questions, comments, suggestions, revisions, and/or additions. I’d very much appreciate learning how useful you find these resources.*
And since it took 1,000+ hours of work to develop these resources, please consider giving back by helping to improve them. You can also make a retroactive payment (a.k.a., donation) to my personal social impact fund–even a few pennies are appreciated–if you find them valuable. But only if they’re valuable to you.
General
- Self Spark: a platform for sparking evidence-based action for personal growth. Use the free, open source Spark Days to improve your productivity, reduce procrastination, become happier, augment your dating life, etc.
- Personal Growth Resource Kit: 150+ useful files for helping with all areas of your personal growth, including career, fitness, setting/reaching goals, life planning, nutrition, productivity, self-awareness, sleep, and time and performance management. Latest version: 10/14/11. Download: ZIP
- Growth Partner: use me as your personal growth partner to help you grow. I believe in measurable results; otherwise it’s not worth your time or mine.
- Junto: set up your Junto or “club for mutual improvement” as Benjamin Franklin did in 1727.
- Polymath Junto: connect with polymathic individuals around the world to join or create a Polymath Junto.
- Psychological Assessments: take free psychological assessments, hand-picked from the thousands online.
University Focused
- Incoming UT Austin Student Resource Kit: 50 useful files for incoming (and existing) undergraduate students at the University of Texas at Austin. It focuses on how to succeed at UT. Some material is dated, but much is still useful. Hook ‘em horns! Latest version: 6/4/05. Download: ZIP
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