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

Motivation – Reducing Impulsiveness

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Update: This post is superseded by my newer work on procrastination. I want to continue to upload my notes I took from lukeprog’s awesome post over at Less Wrong called How to Beat Procrastination. The Procrastination Equation, as mentioned in my first post, shows where our motivation comes from: Impulsiveness tends to be the largest component of procrastination. If we can decrease […]

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Motivation – Increasing Value

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A summary of the Increasing Value component of the Procrastination Equation.

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Motivation – Increasing Expectancy

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Update: This post is superseded by my newer work on procrastination. I want to continue to upload my notes I took from lukeprog’s awesome post over at Less Wrong called How to Beat Procrastination. The Procrastination Equation, as mentioned in my first post, shows where our motivation comes from: Expectancy is something we want to increase, which in turn […]

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Being too strategic

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I recently read Levels of Action, an awesome post on Less Wrong by tommccabe. Awesome, because he pegged down one of my greatest flaws (and therefore excellent low-hanging fruit). Level 1 actions are concrete object-level actions: things that directly move the world towards a more desirable state, like taking a typing class to improve your […]

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