Книги которые помогли мне начать зарабатывать в интернете и изменить жизнь

Summary

Matvey Severianin discusses books and other resources that he says helped him rethink his habits, understand himself, and make changes in his life. He argues that people are shaped by their upbringing, education, and social environment, but that these influences can be examined and changed.

Productivity and Self-Development Strategies

• Track what you do. Keep a diary or use digital notes to record whether you completed tasks and, if not, why. His principle is that you can’t manage or improve something you don’t monitor.
• Turn habits into a game. Give yourself points for completing tasks, then exchange them for small rewards. He mentions using an Excel tracker, Habitica, or a ChatGPT prompt to log work, Spanish study, and stretching.
• Choose a small number of priorities. He currently focuses on work, Spanish, and stretching, while letting lower-priority activities fit around them.
• Make desired actions easier to start. Reduce friction by keeping useful tools within reach. For example, he plays guitar more when it is accessible than when it is stored away.
• Use accountability when helpful. Scheduled lessons with a teacher helped him study because he was more likely to follow through on a commitment to another person.
• Rely on consistency, not just inspiration. New Year’s enthusiasm and event-related euphoria tend to fade; routines and tracking help sustain progress.
• Practice delayed gratification. Accepting effort or discomfort now—such as studying a language—can create benefits later.
• Pay attention to your environment. The people you spend time with can influence your habits and expectations. He also recommends seeking perspectives beyond your usual social circle.
• Learn your strengths and weaknesses. He recommends the free PrinciplesYou assessment, while noting that it takes a long time and is in English. He says its results helped him understand himself and some employees.

Recommended Books and Other Resources

• For reflection and a fresh start: The Daily Stoic / Stoicism for Every Day — read a short, dated entry each morning.
• For self-observation: I Fixed My Life in 1 Year — a YouTube video about keeping a diary and reviewing progress.
• For motivation, behavior, and environment: Willpower Doesn’t Work, The Chimp Paradox, and You or Chaos.
• For alternative perspectives and questioning assumptions: Animal Farm, The Running Man, The Lucifer Effect, Sheep in Wolves’ Clothing, and Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.
• For management and online business skills: Igor Lipsits’s free Marketing Management course on YouTube. Severianin also mentions his own marketing course and a planned free workshop on creating a paid subscription channel.
• Also mentioned: Atomic Habits, SuperBetter, Thinking, Fast and Slow, and Superman by Habit.

Presenters and Sources

• Presenter: Matvey Severianin.
• Books and authors named or identified in the subtitles:
  • Ray Dalio, Principles
  • The Daily Stoic / Stoicism for Every Day
  • Animal Farm
  • The Running Man
  • Philip Zimbardo, The Lucifer Effect
  • Sheep in Wolves’ Clothing (author not named)
  • Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
  • Benjamin Hardy, Willpower Doesn’t Work
  • Steve Peters, The Chimp Paradox
  • Alexander Friedman, You or Chaos
  • Atomic Habits
  • SuperBetter (associated in the discussion with Kelly McGonigal)
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow
  • Superman by Habit
  • Theory of Castes and Roles
  • Maximum Charge by “Toma Rato”

The last two titles or names may be distorted by automatic transcription.

• Other sources and tools: PrinciplesYou assessment; the YouTube video I Fixed My Life in 1 Year (creator not identified); Denis Borisov’s Will video/story; the Wait But Why website; Habitica; Obsidian; ChatGPT; Igor Lipsits’s YouTube marketing course; and Severianin’s own marketing course and planned subscription-channel workshop.