Anybody want to join a club for mutual improvement? 👌
Hi hackers,
A long time ago, I had an idea inspired by Benjamin Franklin's Junto Club about a club for people who want to improve themselves, their communities and help others.
I called it #Junto (HashJunto).
What's an improvement in that context? Eliminating fears by actions and the right knowledge (like billionaire Charlie Munger's idea of mental models or ex-Googler Mo Gawdat's book "Solve for happy"), understanding how to learn effectively, how to increase income, how to speak publically without hesitation, how to communicate and socialize 10x better, etc.
Other examples: how to become friendlier, how to exercise every day, how to wake up earlier, how to be a better leader, how to open a business.
Most importantly, it's all about actions and applying knowledge every single day (and not only about reading "good content" every day).
If you want to apply, just fill the form here: https://ansek.typeform.com/to/J0cvfI
I'm eager to validate this idea in real life and to get some intense constructive criticism. Feel free to say whatever you think of it.
My reactions, in chronological order:
My post-mortem (and I fully understand you rapidly produced this concept to validate the idea) is that I think there's a cool idea in there, but it's important in this case to offer your visitors something more specific — even if that's only temporary and experimental as well.
Off the top of my head, this could be something like, "Partner up with a few other Junto members in a group which will stay in touch via Slack to check in and hold one another accountable for micro-goals A, B, and C."
If this is too specific, and you truly only want to validate the mere idea of this self-improvement community, you can update your form to capture feedback on what people like and what they don't like.
Again off the top of my head, at the end of the form you can add a checkbox that states something like, "Check this box if you're interested in self improvement, only not through this community." If nothing else, this would let you know that the underlying idea was sound, and you could then rethink the execution.
Just some thoughts.
Thank you very much for a such expanded answer. I appreciate that you used your time for writing it!
Excellent insights here, especially about being specific.
I'm learning on the fly right now because I think I had a pretty dull environment in my developing country with a lot of highly abstract ideas and full of ego centric people. Didn't notice it until recently.
That's why I just put it in the world and learn from any feedback I can get. I'm trying to get along with the world.
Pretty cool idea, but a little elusive. I think a lot of peeps are down for self-improvement but it seems it would be better based on mutual rapport. Like, I might be interested in joining, but who are you? "Secret" does that mean it's based around anonymity?
I think you're right, it might seem a bit elusive and weird.
That's why I just published my thoughts here.
I kind of admire the idea of rapid experimentation so I want to get some feedback from real people and then either shape the idea into something better or just throw it away from my head and continue with something else :)
Good point about the word "secret" here, I removed it from the title.
Very cool. I like how with one reply, you're already iterating on the idea.
Nice! Would love to hear your experience with rapid experimentation and this idea. I really think this is valuable. Like from idea to validation of idea to execute. How much time did you invest and what simple tools did you use.
I know I can learn from that, how do you generate interest around an idea instead of developing it in a vacuum only to emerge and realize no one cares.
Or as Mike Tyson put it, "Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the face".
Thanks. Yeah, I like rapid experimentation because I believe it leads to better outcome.
People tend to attach themselves to ideas and their ego. It's part of our minds and we think that it should be that way but it shouldn't.
As I mentioned in my answer to @channingallen, I grew up in a shitty social environment and quite poor as well so now I just want to learn without BS.
I think I'll put this idea on hold because after getting some great insights and with new information from yesterday, I'm going to go with the similar idea but in a different area.