Self-awareness – knowing what you believe and why

In my self-awareness posts I write about our brains as seen through the lenses of evolutionary and social psychology, neuroscience, and beyond. Only by understanding ourselves can we improve ourselves. Worldviews are a useful tool here for mapping out our beliefs, and then critiquing them and improving them.

Some specific topics covered are: evolutionary & social psychology, neuroscience, biases, heuristics, clarity, values, history, culture, worldviews, beliefs

Year in Review: 2014

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Another year has come and gone. Review time! Every year I perform a complete review of my life, my goals, and my projects. I’ve done this for a decade, and every time it’s valuable and enjoyable. Here’s a summary of my review for 2014. This is an extremely shortened version of my actual review, in […]

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One Year of Pomodoros

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The pomodoro technique is, in short, starting a timer and doing 25 minutes of focused work on a single task without interruption, followed by a five minute break. Choose a new task, restart the timer, and repeat. Throughout 2013 I used pomodoros to execute on pretty much all of my life projects, organized into the following […]

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Year in Review: 2013

Self-awareness

Another year has come and gone. Review time! At the end of every year I perform a complete review of my life, my goals, and my projects. I’ve done this for about ten years now, and found it valuable every time. Here’s a summary of my review for 2013. When performing my review I go into […]

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Life Areas

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This post contains an up-to-date list of my “life areas”—a breakdown of the major different areas in my life, which I frequently use, for example when performing my yearly reviews. 1. Worldview & Purpose Is: your overall clarity as to your existence, purpose, and place in the universe; religious beliefs; goals; philosophy of life; fundamentals; want […]

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