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 Generally Reduce Procrastination

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Defeating procrastination and increasing our motivation is probably the most useful life skill we can learn. Recommendations, advice, and methods abound on the internet and in popular self-help books. What should we do? Who should we listen to? What really works?  (Click here if you’re impatient and just want the advice!) The Procrastination Equation is […]

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Uncertainty by Jonathan Fields – Summary

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This article contains my book notes for Uncertainty by Jonathan Fields (2011). We all suffer from uncertainty and doubt, especially when creating something new. It’s certainly something I have issues with. Uncertainty: Turning Fear and Doubt into Fuel for Brilliance is a book by Jonathan Fields that addresses this situation. If I were to summarize the whole […]

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The Benefits of Mindfulness

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A key part of mastering ourselves is being aware of our thoughts as they happen. The concept of mindfulness plays a key role in Buddhist meditation and has been practiced for thousands of years. Of course, just because a thing is ancient doesn’t mean it’s valuable. Meditation – in the non-mystical, secular sense – seems to […]

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How to Be Humble

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I’m writing a series that highlights key material from LessWrong.com. This post is based on The Proper Use of Humility by Eliezer Yudkowsky. “Faced with the choice of changing one’s mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.” —John Kenneth Galbraith Humility: Good and Bad Proper humility is difficult—both […]

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