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

Handling People: Never Criticize

Self-mastery

This is the first post in a series that goes through How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie and summarizes the key ideas. A Classic What better place to start reading about communication and interacting with other people than one of the all-time international best sellers? How to Win Friends and Influence […]

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A Case Against How to Make a Case Against Vegetarianism

Self-mastery

A friend sent me this article from wikihow.com that lays out ten arguments a meat-eater can use when debating with a vegetarian. I agree with some of them, and others may be good against a raging irrational vegetarian. Overall, though, I don’t think they are very convincing. Here are the ten arguments, and my thoughts […]

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Planning for the Coming Year (2011)

Self-mastery

I know I really left it to the last minute, but for those interested here is how I do my upcoming year planning. As with the last post ([intlink id=”401″ type=”post”]Reviewing the Past Year[/intlink]) I use a mindmap with my 14 categories that breakdown the various areas of my life, plus a few additions. For […]

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Reviewing the Past Year (2010)

Self-mastery

Before planning for the upcoming year, it is still important to review the past year. As mentioned in the last post, I start with cleaning up as many loose ends as possible (taking care not to burn myself out doing that). For example, empty out that email inbox! You don’t need to respond to everything, […]

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