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

“How to Get Motivated” Poster Update

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I just updated my How to Get Motivated anti-procrastination poster. This update includes: Fixed typos. What the heck is “contast”? Whoops. Fixed that, plus a few others. Improved wording. A few of the actions I changed completely, and various others I changed just slightly. I realized that much of the advice in the poster is fairly abstract […]

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How To Take Good Advice and Actually Use It To Better Your Life

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Good advice is a waste of your time. Yes, you read that right. Good advice is mostly useless. Why? Because no matter how good the advice is you’ll probably forget it and never use it. One of the big ironies of the many personal development blogs that have sprouted up all over the internet is […]

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How to Get Motivated: A Guide for Defeating Procrastination

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Followup to: How to Generally Reduce Procrastination and How to Stop Procrastinating Right Now Jump down to the end if you want the download links.  Two of my recent posts were meant to highlight clear, actionable things we can do to defeat procrastination – whether it’s general life and environment changes or things that can […]

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How to Stop Procrastinating Right Now

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Followup to: How to Generally Reduce Procrastination As I said earlier, defeating procrastination and increasing our motivation is probably the most useful life skill we can learn. Are there specific things we can do the instant we notice we’re procrastinating? (If you’re impatient, jump right to the advice!) Hopefully you’ve already read and started implementing […]

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