Our best of 2021🏅

#121 | The Wisdom Project Wrapped

Hey folks👋

Welcome to Wisdom Letter #121.

Today we are finishing off our series of the best of 2021. But before we get into the best of the wisdom project 2021, since this is the last post of the year, we want to take a moment to say thank you.

It’s been a roller coaster of a year for us. We have witnessed great personal and professional change this year.

And this newsletter has played a tremendous role in keeping us on track towards our goals.

At so many levels.

Reading and preparing for the weekly wisdom letters is the best intellectual exercise we perform every week.

Connecting with our subscribers, speaking to them about their challenges, learning their thoughts and opinions around the topics we write about is one of the most fulfilling experiences we have every week.

This newsletter is our number one self-development engine.

And you dear readers, are the fuel that powers this engine.

So thank you so much for a fantastic year, for being there always, every week, for the last 121 weeks🙏

We are extremely humbled and honored.

Now, before we get sentimental, let’s get into this week’s post😅

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Our top 10 posts of 2021 -

The Wisdom of Atomic Habits -

The Wisdom of Atomic Habits

On the Gray Rhino Effect -

Will the Gray Rhino Trample You? Some Obvious Risks You Ignore

3 Habits for building wealth -

3 Habits for Better Wealth

On sunk costs fallacy -

Do You Fall for Sunk Costs? Few Easy ways to Tackle Them🌊

Knowledge vs Wisdom -

💡 Knowledge vs Wisdom

The mental model of compounding -

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? It's compounding📈

On the 80/20 rule - Pareto Principle -

Have you met Mr. Vilfredo Pareto?

The Theory of Flow -

In memory of Mihaly🎈

Ladders of Wealth creation -

Ladders of Wealth🪜

Best Books to read -

Books of the year 🥇

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Personal Stuff -

We got a ton of love for some of our personal content as well. Super grateful for that🙏

This blog post and Twitter thread went viral when I quit my full time job and went solo -

Twitter thread -

Ayush 🙏 @ayushtweetshere

I'd always thought I would be a corporate slave till 60. Make a shit ton of money and retire in peace. Instead. Today I am 33, with 24 months of savings and some raw ideas. And I'm quitting the corporate rat race to go solo. This is my story -

And a related podcast interview earlier this month -

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👀 Next Week (Year)

Thanks again for everything🙏

We have experimented and evolved a lot all through this year, and will continue to do so.

We are learning a lot by observing what kind of content you like, and will double down on that next year in 2022.

So next week onwards you can expect to see some more experiments. (Including a possible new time/day of the week as well, lets see😅)

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📂 From the archives

This week, that year -

• 5 Books for the heart | Wisdom Letter #69

• Pearls of Wisdom - 1 | Wisdom Letter #17

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A Merry Xmas and a very Happy New Year 2022 to you from The Wisdom Project.

Cheers,

Ayush & Aditi