Wishcraft

Two of the ideas you’ll keep

The Clif summary of Wishcraft pulls out 7 insights. Here are the first two.

1. Your wishes are not random or frivolous, they are precise signals of your innate design. Sher argues you were born with a specific temperament, and wanting something is evidence it fits who you already are, not a whim to talk yourself out of.
2. The real obstacle to your goals is rarely laziness or lack of willpower, it's isolation. Sher's central claim is that nobody achieves anything alone, and the missing ingredient for most stuck people is a structure of human support, not more discipline.

The other 5 — and the full 11-minute summary — are in the app.

What’s inside: 8 chapters

The whole summary runs about 11 minutes, read or listened to.

1. You Are Not the Problem
2. Reclaiming Your Original Self
3. The Power of Negative Thinking
4. Goal-Setting: Turning Wishes Into Targets
5. Mapping the Path Backwards
6. The Idea Party and Barn-Raising
7. Building Your Success Team
8. Living With Obstacles, Fear, and Time