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 the Most Out of the Next Year

Self-mastery

(Cross-posted on Less Wrong: How to get the most out of the next year.) We are not automatically strategic. Since we want to get stuff done, it only makes sense to try harder—and what better time than the start of a new year? In short: the New Year is a great time to do some life review and planning. […]

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Run a Dash to Beat Procrastination

Self-mastery

Here is a great anti-procrastination trick that I use very successfully—as long as I’m aware enough to implement it in the first place. I found this on 43Folders from Merlin Mann. The idea is to commit to a dash of work, say 10 minutes only. This is easier to commit to than thinking, “Man, I need to […]

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How to Understand People Better – lesswrong.com

Self-mastery

Pwno over at Less Wrong has written a cool post on how to understand people better. From the introduction: I’ve been taking notes on how I empathize, considering I seem to be more successful at it than others. I broke down my thought-patterns, implied beliefs, and techniques, hoping to unveil the mechanism behind the magic. […]

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Being okay with reality

Self-mastery

I sent this as a followup email to those who were at Junto #40 (“If determinism is true, then what’s the point?”), and thought others might find it interesting. — On Being Okay with the Truth | lesswrong.com | lukeprog Key ideas: We humans have a tendency to ‘freak out’ when our model of the world […]

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