Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl · Location 1289
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.
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01 · Save
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02 · Remember
What you save comes back to you
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And it becomes something you do
Becoming finds the threads running through what you save, turns each into a four-week Theme, and draws one small practice from it each day.
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Everything you highlight, and everything you mean to read, in one place.
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Your highlights, from everywhere you read.
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Stays in sync
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Highlights flow in through the Becoming extension.
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Bring your Readwise highlights and notes along.
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From YouTube
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From your inbox
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The Craft of Attention
Everyone talks about managing time. Almost no one talks about managing attention.
What you give your attention to is, in the end, what your life is made of. That's why it deserves to be spent deliberately.
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Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator
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Why small habits compound
You don't need more time to read — you need a way to keep what you read.
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Highlight in place
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The Compound Effect of Small Habits
James Clear · 8 min read
You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.
HighlightDeep Work in a Distracted World
Cal Newport · Video
2:14 Most people never train their ability to concentrate.
2:59 Deep work means focusing without distraction.
3:41 And it's becoming rare at exactly the wrong time.
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Daily Review
You didn't highlight it to forget it.
Most highlights get saved once and never seen again. Becoming brings yours back in a short daily review, and when one still matters, "Turn into Theme" gives you four weeks of small practices built on it.
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Atomic Habits
James Clear · Location 312
You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.
Deep Work
Cal Newport · Location 154
Clarity about what matters provides clarity about what does not.
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Pause Before Reacting
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Deep Work
Cal Newport · 74
Less mental clutter means more mental resources available for deep thinking.
attentionTools to Improve Focus
Andrew Huberman
Attention is a skill you can train — a little, deliberately, each day.
focus MCP Integration
Chat with everything you've read.
Becoming has a built-in MCP server, so Claude Desktop, Cursor, ChatGPT — any AI assistant that speaks MCP — can read your highlights, sources, and notes, and even generate Themes and run Practices for you.
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Becoming connectedWhat have my books taught me about doing fewer things, better?
Becoming · Searching 412 highlights…
You've highlighted this idea in 3 books. Essentialism: "If you don't prioritize your life, someone else will." And Naval frames it as leverage — a handful of right decisions can outweigh years of effort.
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One small practice a day, drawn from your own highlights.
Themes & Practices
Turn what you read into what you do.
Becoming finds the threads running through your highlights and proposes a Theme: four weeks on one idea, with a small practice each day drawn from your own books.
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Themes from your highlights
Or from what you want to work on. Describe it, and Becoming grounds it in your library.
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One practice a day
Two to five minutes, tied to the Theme you're on. Do it now, or later today.
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Your own words on it
Write a short reflection when a practice lands, so the idea is yours and not just the author's.
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