Self-mastery – mastering your body and mind

In my self-mastery posts I write about concrete, applicable tools and tricks for applying our knowledge of ourselves – our self-awareness – to (1) achieve our goals, and (2) align our beliefs as closely as possible with reality.

Some specific topics covered are: life-hacking, achieving goals (“winning”), rationality tools and exercises, anti-akrasia, thinking dispositions, epistemic accuracy

Updates to my 8,760 Hours guide

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I’m happy to announce that my 8,760 Hours guide has been cleaned up and improved, just in time for 2016 Reviews and 2017 Planning! When I first wrote the guide back in 2012 I expected maybe a few friends to read it. Since then, the guide was downloaded over 16,000 times, and many people have said very […]

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New Life Hacking Page

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After picking away at it for months here and there, I finally finished a new page on this site: a fairly thorough summary of how I run various areas of my life. Check it out here!

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How We Use the Procrastination Equation

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by Alex Vermeer and Jimmy Rintjema Why the hell can’t we get more done? We procrastinate. A lot. It sucks. We want to do it less. The procrastination equation, thanks to Piers Steel, ((Piers Steel, from the University of Calgary, is “one of the world’s foremost researchers and speakers on the science of motivation and […]

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Starting over with Anki

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I’ve been using Anki fairly regularly for a few years, but it’s time to start over. My decks are too many and too cluttered. I have too much material that I don’t actually care to spend my time memorizing. A lot of my notes are old and poorly formatted. I haven’t gone through them to fix […]

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