having peace in a world of chaos

Peace through happiness, happiness through love, love through acceptance, acceptance through standards, standards through experience, experience through failures.

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Established Concepts & Studies

Exploratory Research

This is what I'm trying to sort out: Extreme Ownership, PTG, and Flow State (in my mind) are categorized as explainable principles and standalone categories, whereas How to Win Friends, Atomic Habits, 48 Laws of Power, and The Subtle Art are more like a reference book/subset category that falls within a broader category

Single-Concept: in-depth on one specific concept. A single concept is broadened out to multiple supporting sub-themes.

Multi-Concept: Multi concepts are a collection of sub-concepts focused into one theme.

Theme: A broader domain, area of focus, or organizing subject

Concept: A specific, defined idea or principle that can be understood as a single unit

Single-Concept: One → Many

• Start with ONE core concept and explore it deeply across multiple supporting sub-themes
• Flow: One concept (optimal consciousness) → explored across sports, work, creativity, relationships, etc.
• Extreme Ownership: One principle (complete responsibility) → applied to leadership, decision-making, team dynamics, crisis management
• PTG: One phenomenon (growth from trauma) → explored across different types of growth, conditions, therapeutic applications

Multi-Concept: Many → One

• Gather MULTIPLE related concepts/strategies under one unifying theme
• Art of Impossible: Four concepts (motivation, learning, creativity, flow) → unified theme of peak performance
• How to Win Friends: Various social techniques → unified theme of relationship building
• Atomic Habits: Multiple habit strategies → unified theme of behavior change

This captures the structural difference perfectly. Single-Concept books are deep dives - they take one thing and show you all its facets. Multi-Concept books are comprehensive guides - they collect related tools around a central organizing theme.

It's about the direction of exploration: radiating outward from one core idea versus gathering inward around one central purpose.

Cognitive Behavioral Theory

Jiu-Jitsu, Chess, Flow State, and Love

Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders (Cognitive Behavioral Theory)