# The Ultimate Method to Take Control of Your Life in 2023 - Ryder Carroll

## Metadata
- Author: [[Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal]]
- Full Title: The Ultimate Method to Take Control of Your Life in 2023 - Ryder Carroll
- Category: #podcasts
- URL: https://share.snipd.com/episode/07d9629d-5e6f-4ac6-b36f-3b32dc626d75
## Highlights
- Episode AI notes
1. The bullet journal method involves capturing, reflecting, and acting on thoughts by categorizing them with different icons in real-time.
2. Bullet journaling goes beyond organizing tasks and events, serving as a platform for self-reflection and introspection to align actions with intentions, values, and curiosity.
3. Bullet journaling helps individuals recognize patterns, analyze emotions, and refine their narrative to create a more meaningful and fulfilling life by crafting a new chapter each day. ([Time 0:00:00](https://share.snipd.com/episode-takeaways/3da443b5-c24c-40c5-a599-2c9eeadbc45e))
- Capture, Reflect, and Act
Summary:
By categorizing thoughts with different icons in real-time, one can focus on what truly matters.
Actively listening helps to identify specific takeaways, which can be captured in personal words for better retention. The cycle of the bullet journal method involves recording thoughts, reflecting on them for insights, and then responding with appropriate actions.
Transcript:
Speaker 1
Okay. Sorry, please go ahead. And each one of those has a different icon in front of it. So as you're writing things down, you're also categorizing your thoughts in real time. And the only way to make that sustainable is figuring out a way to write down less. Right? You're really trying to focus on what really matters. And that is part of the practice, right? You've listened to somebody and you're like, it focuses. It helps you become an active listener. Right? It's like, what about this is the takeaway specifically? So you're starting to think about what's being said in a very different way. Because like hearing and listening are two very different things. So it's like, okay, what about this is important? And then using your own words to capture it. And that process as well, like using your own words helps you retain it better and helps you make it more personal, all these things. And you're doing this throughout the day. So information that's coming from the outside being filtered through your brain and then being added to your bullet journal. So that's like a big part of it capturing things. You record. So the bullet journal method works in a cycle, which is record, reflect, refine and respond. And those are like the four steps. So you record by writing things down, then you reflect on the things that you wrote down and try to come up with insights and different takeaways. And then you take action accordingly, right? ([Time 0:26:33](https://share.snipd.com/snip/11cb9352-567b-4d4f-8d08-c968079a6c82))
- Bullet Journaling: Writing Your Own Story
Summary:
Bullet journaling helps in organizing tasks, events, and notes, but it goes beyond just to-do lists or factual information.
It serves as a platform for self-reflection and introspection, allowing individuals to write their own stories by capturing feelings and insights. Through this process, individuals can align their actions with their intentions, values, and curiosity, leading to self-discovery and personal growth.
Bullet journaling acts as a tool for recognizing patterns, analyzing emotions, and refining one's narrative to create a more meaningful and fulfilling life, providing a fresh start each day to craft a new chapter of their story.
Transcript:
Speaker 1
When you're reading this, it becomes a different thing, you know, and that's what keeps on making it relevant. So I provide a basic foundation that helps keep everything on the rails, if you will, but then it's like your laboratory and you get to experiment with that. All of it revolves around thinking. Like that's a big part of it. How do you organize your thinking around your intention, around your values, around your curiosity? So we have tasks, events and notes. That's the most basic piece of the puzzle, right? These are the things that are happening. And a lot of times people think notes are just, you know, this is what I have to do tomorrow or, you know, somebody likes to color blue, but for me, notes are like, what are you feeling? What's coming up? Right? So like, okay, I did this thing and I feel this way. And then we have rituals to come back to all of this content and be like, oh, that's interesting. I worked on this thing and I've been feeling sad all month. Like this project that I thought was really exciting is actually just really bumming me out and it's not bringing me closer to what I want. And I wouldn't have noticed that unless I had read my own story. And that's what you're doing with bullet journaling. You're writing your own story and you're starting to realize when that story is not making sense or it's not the story you want to tell. And then every morning you wake up and you start telling that story anew. ([Time 0:34:59](https://share.snipd.com/snip/851d8d79-07e4-458f-8534-2fd6594c219c))