Mind & Growth

Mind & Growth is where the thinking goes: what you are learning, the ideas you have not done anything with yet, the projects you are carrying, and the decisions you want a record of. It is also where your goals and values live, which is why this area shapes the others.

Ideas

Capture an idea when it arrives, before it evaporates. Ideas stay active while you are still interested and move to archived when you are not, so the list you look at is the one you might act on rather than everything you have ever thought.

An active idea is a candidate for the week. Archiving is not deleting; the archive is still there when the idea turns out to have been early rather than wrong.

Projects

The things you are actually carrying, tracked so the planner knows what is in flight. A project with no time in the week is visible as such, which is usually the useful information.

Dilemmas

A queue for the open questions you have not resolved: the decisions you keep turning over without settling. Writing one down does two things. It stops you re-deriving the same question every few weeks, and it gives asambl something concrete to help you think through in Ask asambl.

Learning

Your learning log records what you have been reading and working through.

asambl surfaces questions drawn from it, so what you have read gets revisited rather than filed and forgotten. Your answers build up as a record you can go back to, and the planner can draw on.

You rate and critique what asambl surfaces rather than simply accepting or rejecting it, and that feedback shapes what comes next.

Decisions

A log of the decisions you have made and why. The reasoning is the point: in six months you will remember the decision and not the thinking behind it, and the difference matters when you are deciding whether to change course.

Habits

Define the habits you want to keep, with the type that fits each one: yes or no, a scale, or a quantity with a unit. You record them in the daily check-in, and they build streaks as you keep them up.

Goals and values

Your goals, values, and annual direction are stored in this area, but they are worth their own page because they shape every other one. See Goals and values.

Right now

A free-text note for what is true at the moment. The planner reads it, so a stretch where you have no capacity for anything new is worth writing down rather than discovering through a week of plans you cannot follow.

Where it lives

Mind & Growth stores its files under 20_Life_OS/Mind/:

20_Life_OS/Mind/
  Goals.md            what you are working towards
  Values.md           what breaks the tie
  Sparks.md           ideas, active and archived
  Projects.md         what you are carrying
  DilemmaQueue.md     open questions
  LearningLog.md      what you have been learning
  DecisionLog.md      decisions, and the reasoning behind them
  HabitDefinitions.md the habits you are tracking
  HabitLog.md         your check-ins

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