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

Yearly Review and Planning: Intro

Self-mastery

For the last few years I’ve done a yearly review in the few weeks leading up to the new year. I thought I’d share the process that I use, in case you find it helpful for doing your own review. But first a little meta: Why do a yearly review? I suppose if it doesn’t […]

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Breaking down your money flow with 11-5 categories

Self-mastery

For those with sometimes OCD organizing tendencies, you may be interested in knowing how I track and organize the flow of my money. My expenses breakdown is a modified version of one I read in a book a very long time ago. Unfortunately, I don’t remember what book it was, but I remember modifying it […]

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How to disagree

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Check out this essay by Paul Graham, where he creates a ‘Disagreement Hierarchy’ to elucidate the various levels of disagreement between name-calling and proper refutation. DH6. Refuting the Central Point – the most powerful form of refutation; refutes a key point in the argument DH5. Refutation – find specific points you disagree with and explain […]

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The Twelve Virtues of Rationality

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I hesitantly try to summarize what I find already amazingly condensed and succinct. But at the risk of breaking the virtue of simplicity, here are the Twelve Virtues of Rationality. But don’t stop at this summary, read the full article yourself (it isn’t long!) by Eliezer Yudkowsky. I highly recommend it. The Twelve Virtues are: […]

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