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 Beat Procrastination

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Update: This post is superseded by my newer work on procrastination. I finally reread lukeprog’s awesome post over at Less Wrong called How to Beat Procrastination. It’s a horrible irony—I’ve ready his post several times, always with the intention of putting some of it into practice. And I’ve always put off doing that. Until now, finally! All the things I want to do […]

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Handling People: Summary

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This is a summary of Part 1—Fundamental Techniques in Handling People—from How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. Part 1 of Carnegie’s book, summarized here, discusses three fundamental techniques for handling people. For my original summaries of each chapter, check out [intlink id=”444″ type=”post”]Never Criticize[/intlink], [intlink id=”454″ type=”post”]Appreciation[/intlink], and [intlink id=”462″ type=”post”]Eager […]

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Handling People: Eager Want

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This is the third post in a series that goes through How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie and summarizes the key ideas. Selfishness Carnegie begins Chapter 3 by reiterating some of the ideas presented in Chapter 2 about people’s wants and desires. “Every act you have ever performed since the day […]

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Handling People: Appreciation

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This is the second post in a series that goes through How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie and summarizes the key ideas. Want and Appreciation Carnegie starts Chapter 2 with an important idea. “There is only one way under high heaven to get anybody to do anything. Did you ever stop […]

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