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The Knowledge Map

Where do you want to be in 12 days?

Pick a world. Every line on it is a skill, every stop a road of 12 five-minute Stations built from the best books on it.

60 roads · 116 books · 5 minutes a day

How to read the map

  1. 01 · World

    A world is where you want to grow.

    Money, Mind, Career, Startup… the six areas life keeps asking you about.

  2. 02 · Track

    A track is one line through it.

    Focus, Habits, Leadership, Negotiation — the skills inside the world.

  3. 03 · Yol

    A road takes you to one destination.

    12 Stations built from 5–6 books, or one great book walked end to end.

  4. 04 · Station

    A Station is 5 minutes a day.

    Learn → a real-life scene → do it today → quick check. Station 1 of every road is free.

World 1 of 6

Money

Where the money goes, saving, debt, investing and enough: money turned into a system.

1 tracks
5 roads
10 books
60 Stations

What you will be able to do

  • Index investing
  • Risk and time horizon
  • Costs and fees
  • Behaviour under volatility
  • A simple plan you keep
  • Money psychology
  • Spending with intention
  • Automating savings
  • The Intelligent Investor, Benjamin Graham
  • The Simple Path to Wealth, JL Collins
  • The Little Book of Common Sense Investing, John C. Bogle
  • A Random Walk Down Wall Street, Burton G. Malkiel
  • The Psychology of Money, Morgan Housel
  • Rich Dad Poor Dad, Robert T. Kiyosaki
  • Your Money or Your Life, Vicki Robin & Joe Dominguez
  • I Will Teach You to Be Rich, Ramit Sethi
  • The Richest Man in Babylon, George S. Clason
  • The Millionaire Next Door, Thomas J. Stanley & William D. Danko

Built from 10 books

The lineMoney

2 roads

From behaviour to independence, one line.

  1. Invest for the long termYou become a calm, low-cost long-term investor with a written plan you can hold through crashes, without needing hot tips or market forecasts.Yol · 12 Stations · 12 daysPremium
  2. Master Your MoneySomeone whose money runs on a system rather than on willpower: knows where every lira goes, pays themselves first, spends without guilt, clears debt on a plan and invests every month without watching the market.Yol · 12 Stations · 12 daysPremium

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World 2 of 6

Career & Business

Getting better at work: talking, negotiating, deciding.

3 tracks
13 roads
33 books
157 Stations

What you will be able to do

  • Listening
  • Tactical empathy
  • Question control
  • Preparation
  • Objection handling
  • Writing for the reader
  • Leading with the point
  • Cutting clutter
  • Never Split the Difference, Chris Voss
  • Getting to Yes, Roger Fisher & William Ury
  • Influence, Robert Cialdini
  • Difficult Conversations, Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton & Sheila Heen
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
  • Made to Stick, Chip Heath & Dan Heath
  • On Writing Well, William Zinsser
  • Everybody Writes, Ann Handley
  • The Elements of Style, William Strunk Jr. & E. B. White
  • Smart Brevity, Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen & Roy Schwartz
  • +23

Built from 33 books

The lineCommunication

5 roads

Negotiation, hard conversations, persuasion.

  1. Master NegotiationIn 12 stations you become the person who enters any negotiation prepared, calm, and in quiet control of the conversation.Yol · 12 Stations · 12 daysFree
  2. Write clearly and persuasivelyYou write emails, proposals and memos that lead with the point, survive a skim and move people to act, because you edit your own drafts the way a reader would read them.Yol · 12 Stations · 12 daysPremium
  3. Speak in Public with ConfidenceA speaker who stands up with a clear message, a simple shape and a story worth telling, nervous perhaps, but no longer run by the nerves.Yol · 12 Stations · 12 daysPremium
  4. Build Your Personal BrandIn 12 Stations you become the person the right people in your field know for one specific thing, sharing your work without selling yourself.Yol · 12 Stations · 12 daysPremium
  5. Communicate BetterSomeone understood the first time: leads with the point, listens before replying, keeps hard conversations safe, writes messages that get read, and gives feedback that improves the work, not damages the relationship.Yol · 12 Stations · 12 daysPremium

The lineLeadership

1 road

Managing people, from the first team on.

  1. Lead Your First TeamSomeone whose team gets better outcomes because of them, not despite them: runs one-on-ones people want, gives feedback that lands, delegates decisions, and builds a team that argues well and commits.Yol · 12 Stations · 12 daysPremium

The lineCareer

2 roads

Choosing the work, growing your value, taking the next step.

  1. Get the Job You Actually WantSomeone who knows exactly which role they're aiming at, has insiders willing to talk, and walks into interviews and offer talks with a clear story and a number in mind.Yol · 12 Stations · 12 daysPremium
  2. Grow Your CareerIn 12 stations you become the person who builds valuable skills instead of waiting for a passion, tests the next step before jumping, and starts a new role well.Yol · 12 Stations · 12 daysPremium

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World 3 of 6

Mind & Psychology

Attention, decisions and how the mind actually works.

4 tracks
23 roads
50 books
276 Stations

What you will be able to do

  • Retrieval practice
  • Spacing and interleaving
  • Focused and diffuse modes
  • Deliberate practice
  • Designing a learning project
  • Collecting and remixing
  • Showing up daily
  • Beating resistance
  • The War of Art, Steven Pressfield
  • Indistractable, Nir Eyal
  • Make It Stick, Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III & Mark A. McDaniel
  • Ultralearning, Scott H. Young
  • A Mind for Numbers, Barbara Oakley
  • Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise, Anders Ericsson & Robert Pool
  • How We Learn, Benedict Carey
  • Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon
  • Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Creativity, Inc., Ed Catmull with Amy Wallace
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Built from 50 books

The lineFocus

3 roads

Taking attention back as a skill.

  1. Learn Anything FasterSomeone who studies by testing, spacing and practising with feedback, and who can design a learning project for any new skill.Yol · 12 Stations · 12 daysPremium
  2. Be More Creative: From Flashes to Finished WorkSomeone who makes things on a schedule, borrows boldly, hears honest notes without flinching, and finishes and releases work instead of collecting half-started ideas.Yol · 12 Stations · 12 daysPremium
  3. Master Your FocusSomeone who decides what deserves their attention, protects one deep block a day, and returns to it calmly when the day pulls them away.Yol · 12 Stations · 12 daysPremium

The linePsychology

4 roads

How the mind actually works, from the research.

  1. Calm my anxious mindSomeone who can feel anxiety rise, recognise it as an overeager alarm, and still do what matters, without fighting every thought or fleeing every fear.Yol · 12 Stations · 12 daysPremium
  2. Build Your Emotional IntelligenceSomeone who can name what they feel, pause before reacting, read the people around them, and raise a hard issue without wrecking the relationship.Yol · 12 Stations · 12 daysPremium
  3. Find Meaning and Be HappierIn 12 stations you become the person who adds meaning and enjoyment to your days with evidence-based practices that fit you, and knows what you live for.Yol · 12 Stations · 12 daysPremium
  4. Understand Your MindSomeone who knows how their mind works: catches the fast answer before acting, names a feeling before it decides, distrusts their happiness forecasts, enters flow on purpose, and keeps the space between event and reply.Yol · 12 Stations · 12 daysPremium

The lineConfidence

2 roads

Acting before you feel ready.

  1. Stay Calm Under PressureSomeone who can feel the jolt when stakes rise, catch the judgment behind it, and choose a steady next step instead of a reflex.Yol · 12 Stations · 12 daysPremium
  2. Build ConfidenceSomeone who acts before feeling ready: treats ability as something built, hears the inner critic without obeying it, shows up in the arena, speaks up once a day, and keeps the quiet hours that restore them.Yol · 12 Stations · 12 daysPremium

The lineDecisions

2 roads

Deciding with a method, and knowing when you were wrong.

  1. Think More ClearlySomeone who names the trap they're in, starts from the base rate, puts honest numbers on their beliefs, and changes their mind exactly as much as the evidence asks.Yol · 12 Stations · 12 daysPremium
  2. Make Better DecisionsSomeone who decides with a method: widens the options, tests the assumption, states a probability, gets distance from the emotion, prepares to be wrong, and judges the decision separately from the outcome.Yol · 12 Stations · 12 daysPremium

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World 4 of 6

Personal Growth

Habits, identity and the small things done every day.

2 tracks
9 roads
17 books
108 Stations

What you will be able to do

  • Understanding willpower
  • Doing the hard thing first
  • Keeping promises to yourself
  • Recovering after a slip
  • Choosing discomfort on purpose
  • Habit design
  • Environment design
  • Trigger awareness
  • The Willpower Instinct, Kelly McGonigal
  • Can't Hurt Me, David Goggins
  • The War of Art, Steven Pressfield
  • Atomic Habits, James Clear
  • Discipline Is Destiny, Ryan Holiday
  • The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg
  • Tiny Habits, BJ Fogg
  • Good Habits, Bad Habits, Wendy Wood
  • Indistractable, Nir Eyal
  • Getting Things Done, David Allen
  • +7

Built from 17 books

The lineHabits

2 roads

Building habits that stick and breaking the bad ones.

  1. Self-Discipline Without Waiting for WillpowerSomeone who does the hard, important thing first, keeps small promises to themselves, and gets back on track within a day when they slip.Yol · 12 Stations · 12 daysPremium
  2. Build Habits That StickIn 12 stations you become the person whose habits run on design instead of willpower — started small, anchored to your day, and built to survive bad weeks.Yol · 12 Stations · 12 daysPremium

The lineProductivity

2 roads

Starting, finishing and beating procrastination.

  1. Manage Your Time Without Chasing EverythingSomeone who keeps one trusted system, picks the few things that matter each week, says no without guilt, and has stopped waiting to finally catch up.Yol · 12 Stations · 12 daysPremium
  2. Stop ProcrastinatingSomeone who starts: knows procrastination is fear rather than laziness, keeps every open loop in one trusted place, eats the frog first, commits to thirty minutes instead of to finishing, and ships rough drafts.Yol · 12 Stations · 12 daysPremium

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World 5 of 6

Human Nature

Why people say yes, and how they are moved.

1 tracks
3 roads
6 books
36 Stations

What you will be able to do

  • Ethical persuasion
  • Reading the levers
  • Building credibility
  • Making ideas stick
  • Handling disagreement
  • Influence, Robert Cialdini
  • How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie
  • Pre-Suasion, Robert Cialdini
  • Made to Stick, Chip Heath & Dan Heath
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
  • Never Split the Difference, Chris Voss

Built from 6 books

The lineInfluence

1 road

Ethical persuasion and understanding people.

  1. Master InfluenceSomeone who can move a room without a title, knows every lever that is pulled on them, and uses only the ones that point at something true.Yol · 12 Stations · 12 daysPremium

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World 6 of 6

Startup

Finding a business that works: the search, customers, the channel, the hard days.

2 tracks
7 roads
16 books
84 Stations

What you will be able to do

  • Validated learning
  • Customer conversations
  • Finding the secret
  • Traction
  • Hard decisions
  • Asking the right questions
  • Teaching, not pitching
  • Handling objections
  • Zero to One, Peter Thiel with Blake Masters
  • The Lean Startup, Eric Ries
  • The Mom Test, Rob Fitzpatrick
  • The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz
  • Rework, Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
  • Traction, Gabriel Weinberg & Justin Mares
  • The E-Myth Revisited, Michael E. Gerber
  • SPIN Selling, Neil Rackham
  • To Sell Is Human, Daniel H. Pink
  • The Challenger Sale, Matthew Dixon & Brent Adamson
  • +6

Built from 16 books

The lineFounder

1 road

Thinking and deciding like a founder.

  1. Think Like a FounderSomeone who runs their company as a search rather than a plan: talks to customers without being lied to, tests the riskiest assumption first, owns a small market, and decides on the hard days.Yol · 12 Stations · 12 daysPremium

The lineSmall Business

3 roads

A small, profitable business of your own, started with what you have.

  1. Sell with confidenceSomeone who sells by asking better questions, teaching something useful, holding steady on price, and asking for the next step without pressure or apology.Yol · 12 Stations · 12 daysPremium
  2. Grow your small business: better before biggerAn owner who pays profit and themselves first, can say in one sentence what they sell, and runs a business that keeps working when they step away from the counter.Yol · 12 Stations · 12 daysPremium
  3. Start Your BusinessAn owner of a small, profitable business started with what they had: customers talked to first, a price set on value, profit taken from the first sale, and one system written down so it runs without them.Yol · 12 Stations · 12 daysPremium

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