cheat code
(n.) a learnable skill or practice that produces disproportionately large results relative to the effort required to learn it, often because it operates on a leverage point that most people overlook or undervalue.

This is a non-definitive, ever-updating list of cheat codes for life:

  1. Meditation
  2. Memory reconsolidation
  3. Emptiness
  4. Emotional fluidity
  5. Nervous system hacking
  6. Speed reading
  7. Touch typing
  8. Deep work
  9. Identifying and leveraging high quality input
  10. Charisma
  11. High agency
  12. Sleep optimization
  13. Zone 2 cardio
  14. Going to failure in the gym
  15. Nutritional knowledge
  16. Morning sunlight exposure
  17. Cold exposure
  18. Spaced repetition
  19. Deliberate practice
  20. Skill trees
  21. Effective use of LLMs (research, automation, etc)
  22. Knowing what the good aesthetics are and application
  23. Thinking in writing
  24. Writing well
  25. Mental models (eg first principles)
  26. Knowledge of local optimas
  27. Knowledge of incentive structures
  28. Knowledge of systems thinking
  29. Sensemaking skills
  30. Memetics
  31. Mentors
  32. Death contemplation
  33. Environment design
  34. Weekly reviews
  35. Pre-mortems
  36. Building in public
  37. Network effects
  38. Surface area of luck
  39. Compounding efforts
  40. Keyboard shortcuts
  41. Gratitude
  42. Compassion