#know yourself
What do you want
- 0138 — Figure out what makes YOU happy
- 0520 — know what you want and go get it – self-respect
- 0583 — be clear and honest about desired end-states
- 0560 — figure out what you care about – self-respect, fulfilling obligations
- 0162 – What do I really want, what are my utility functions?
Weaknesses
- 0127 – not enjoying games
- 0161 – Overstimulated
- 0354 – a day at home
- 0584 — Get more out of your hours
- 0577 — make stuff you like
- 0143 — question your assumptions about how life should be lived
- 0184 – What moves me?
- 0593 – learn from your experience
- 0365 – stuff I’d like done
- 0308 – Draw, Play, Explore
- 0139 – ADHD, pt 2
#convictions
- 0455 – the joy of working with constraints, pt 2, pt 3
- 0110 – life should be interesting + boring task mgmt stuff
- 0227 – ethical self-focus, a declaration
- 0286 – don’t want to be frustrated
- 0188 + 0189 – become the kind of person who insists that shit gets done
- 0599 + 0600 – learn to be violent
- 0220 — aim for the company of immortals
- 0212 – Bullshit breaks down at the boundaries
- 0121 – a bird in the hand is worth a flock in the sky
- 0504 – the pebble in the shoe is worse than a rocky road
- 0319 – tawk is cheap
- 0258 – entirely within my control
- 0487 – progress is cringeborne
- 0485 – the athlete must play hurt
- 0320 – reading is good
support yourself
regulate your #emotions / psyche
- 0451 – rebirth, sans the moral failure fixation
- 0134 — address your anger and jealousy
- 0126B — kill the saboteur
- 0137 — make time for Life
- 0532 – guilt as a signalling mechanism
- 0295 — forgive your inner criminal
0566 — one must imagine Sisyphus LOL-ing - 0524 — acknowledge the silly “big-minded man” game
- 0432 – let go of your fixations
- 0124 — Stop living in the past
- 0491 — everything changes so stop holding so tight
- 0602 – let go of your stress
- 0467 – past-induced glitchy limbo
- 0453 – presence and impermanence
- 0299 – let go of your guilt, shame and bad estimates
- 0329 – creative destruction, body and mind
- 0404 – some things change, some things stay the same
- 0483 — stop fussing about Poor Little Me
- 0496 — identify personal baggage that needs addressing, and address it
- 0576 — contemplate time wasted
- 0578 — develop confidence
- 0565 — ignore the ego’s whining, the point is to act
- 0413 — stop trying to save the world
- 0276 — listen to yourself
- 0246 — reminder to focus on fundamentals after the feels
- 0381 — fuck fear
- 0557 – heal yourself by helping others
- 0434 – go somewhere new
- 0437 – stop walking over the same old ground
- 0558 – change your story change your frame
- 0384 – express your values through planned actions
- 0438 – break in case of utter desolation: a script
- 0500 – I’m proud of you
- 0501 – regularly revise your personal narrative and self-concept
- 0606 – schedule and prioritize me-time (then everything else)
- 0217 – frustration and writing – write to articulate then resolve your frustrations
- 0591 – dream a little bigger, darling
- 0315 – sorta starting from scratch, managing the mind
- 0204 – fixing anxiety, pausing and changing environments
- 0205 – reflect on recurring dreams and pay attention to yourself
- 0218 – a break from being so goddamn public facing all the time
#manage yourself
- 0300 — break free from your stale, suffocating patterns (*)
- 0584 — Get more out of your hours
- 0104 – manage your information diet and lethargy
- 0301 – gym, and how I usually get stuck
- 0303 – building up the meatbag
- 0305 – 2nd workout, reflecting on overthinking
- 0240 – destroy your limiting beliefs about food
- 0363 – blood sugar 1
- 0386 – soooo sleepy
- 0362 – latest cigarette thoughts
- 0369 – skin in the game and growing up
- 0325 – sick + facebook again
- 0418 – do periodic reviews at multiple timescales
#motivate yourself
- 0196 — go go go
- 0206 — fuck it just do it
- 0379 – I can
- 0336 — wake up do it now
- 0337 — no really do it now
- 0349 – ‘be dangerous’
- 0355 – punch the goddamn tires
- 0536 – Lemmy (This is not a practice life)
- 0394 – the problem with the motivation game
- 0160 – Motivation is an odd thing
#believe
- 0294 – believe that you can become a responsible person
- 0113 – If I can become a smoker, I can build other habits, too
- 0392 – life is precious
#decide
- 0389 – get your ass up and walk the tightrope
- 0442 – insist on prioritizing
- 0321 – move fast and break things
- 0559 – hire a competent CEO for Me, Inc
- 0494 – get into the arena and play to win
- 0509 – put your gains first
- 0567 – Till the ground for the Demon-God
- 0584 – Get more out of your hours
- 0109 — commit to flow, and interestingness
- 0100B — protect your inner child from smoking and abusive relationships
- 0135 — work to go from 20% to 25%
- 0193 — prioritize ruthlessly and follow through
- 0201 — breathe
- 0214 — destroy the boxes
- 0300 – break free from your stale, suffocating patterns, pt 2, pt 3
- solicit feedback and listen to it
- hold yourself accountable
- notice your lethargy and dissect it
- 0208 — earn your keep
- 0561 — Just Ship It
- 0523 — prioritize developing your work ethic
- 0361 — play the bigger games
- 0353 — discharge your strength, productively
- 0344 — wipe the slate clean and face your problems now
- 0340 — decide in advance + do it immediately
- 0335 — no zero days
- 0605 – watch good documentaries and think
- 0109 — commit to flow, and interestingness – pursue what is interesting
be proactive?0374 – contemplate what’s changed and prepare for future change
asd
- 0203 – mindfulness and grand theft auto – GTA/simcity analogy
modify your #behavior
- 0587 – begin the day with a review, not social media
- 0553 – self-regulate pt 1
- 0450 – practice taking pauses
- 0382 – wake up earlier for a different life
- 0548 – go running every week for mental clarity
- 0248 — develop productive rituals
- 0249 — take slow walks
- 0376 — meditate and reflect to unlearn childish incompetence
- 0309 — draw an arbitrary line in the sand
- 0615 – measure your time
- 0616 – micromanage your time
- 0423 – muddled time
- 0339 – cadence – don’t break the chain
- 0293 – get better at estimating (start small)
improve your #environment
- 0267 – humility in the face of environments
- 0607 – be sensitive to context
- 0264 – cultivate different perspectives (by moving yourself)
- 0268 — see through the circus and focus on the fundamentals
- 0233 — improving my environment
- 0287 — Change the lights
- 0531 – do things for placebo purposes
- 0510 – get rid of information feeds that don’t serve you
- 0608 – commit to reviewing your calendar
- 0144 – reading in the mornings and the joy of decluttering
get good at #peopling
- 0083 – avoid talking over people, ask questions and listen instead
- 0224 — win the person, not the argument
- 0222 — Never be mean
- 0254 – old friends, denying and embracing the now
- 0370 – Loyalty missions and hard truths
- 0441 – peopling, and silly
- 0594 – seek out the difficult conversations
- 0596 – cherish your friends
- 0377 – social groups and answers within
- 0239 – EQ
- 0191 – I Unfriended Everybody
- 0210 – after the unfriending
- 0414 – hypothetical dinner parties
- 0448 – coming of age (parents, peers and other benevolent plagues)
be precise
- 0199 — set precise goals to measure your progress towards self-mastery
- 0416 – be precise about execution and work hard
- 0230 — clearly articulate your mistakes and successes
- 0345 – vague again
- 0348 — clearly define your done-criteria
- 0497 — low-res maps vs high-res maps
- 0425 — replace hyperbole with precision
- 0462 — beware grandiose proclamations
- 0529 – gently calibrating expectations
Get Things Done
- 0135 — work to go from 20% to 25% – incremental improvement, there is no silver bullet
- 0488 – getting shit done is a lot of work
- 0372 – no escaping the rehearsals
- 0321 – move fast and break things
- 0123 – laziness as work aversion
- 0168 – The Patient Saboteur + Questions for Singapore
- 0174 – Impulse, Motivation, Dreams, Discipline
- 0175 – Behavioral change, Equilibrium states, Addiction, Ugly progress
- 0178 – lean / mvp approach to developing a proper breakfast routine
- 0192 – “You’re only cheating yourself”
- 0198 – progressing recursively
- 0194 – mvp model of personal development
- 0236 – vague to precise
- 0238 – resourcefulness
- 0275 – the problem with getting things done
- 0197 – 4 parts to procrastination
- 0198 – progressing recursively
- 0284 – the Internet and the Resistance
- 0443 – GTD, prioritization, dealing with interruptions and distractions
- 0364 – mental filing cabinets
- 0549 – write true sentences – this was a suggestion to help myself get started on writing fiction
design solutions to your problems
- 0166 – Pullups at the playground
- 0209 – repeatedly revisit what you know
- 0273 – ask yourself questions about what’s holding you back, and answer them honestly
- 0472 – experiment with pretending you don’t have problems
- 0154 – We Need To Talk About A (starting conditions)
- 0396 – publish crap
- 0538 – evaluate (and do not tolerate) your problems
- 0223 — identify your workflow processes
- 0526 – revise and refine your personal algorithms (they’ll set you free)
- 0261 — Solve For Adoption (Consider Esperanto)
- 0229 — regular sync-ups, and the bleeding over of best practices
- 0292 — the way to do it is piecemeal: learn one new song at a time
- 0582 — think strategicially about writing projects
- 0528 — break things down
- 0514 — don’t build taj mahals
- 0383 — review your principles regularly
- 0120 — build self-control like building a company
- 0281 — zoom out to see how you’re blocking yourself
- 0278 – parent yourself
- 0100B — protect your inner child from abusive relationships
- 0279 – win yourself over
- 0282 — make your plans together with your inner child
- 0424 – the yin-yang nature of our inner child and parent
- 0277 – adulthood is about learning to parent yourself
- 0395 – procrastination as Parent vs Child breakdown
- 0590 – continuing to grapple with adulthood
deal with failure, mistakes, plateaus, setbacks
- 0326 – back on the wagon
- 0366 – “I was stuck but not anymore”, again
- 0403 – missed a vomit
- 0405 – dealing with slipping and with foggy black boxes
- 0417 – idea-resistance, one journey, saying no, falling off wagons
avoid failure / fix mental# bugs
- 0108 – future as escapism
- 0173 – New Lens Become New Blinders
- 0479 – revisiting the Resistance
- 0378 – addicted to describing problems without solving them
- 0390 – my feelings are often wrong and unreliable
- 0327 – beware self-flagellation, move forward instead
- 0421 – beware false victory, and validation
- 0492 – a subconscious filled with trivial games
- 0398 – beware of digression – digressions are fun but achieving goals are more fun so don’t digress at the expense of your goals
- 0266 – beware the dark playground
- 0356 – Less wrong and next steps
- 0468 – boredom is a bug of the mind
- 0580 – skip the potholes
- 0603 – the trouble is you think you have time
- 0490 – mindfully avoid muscle memory
- 0255 – fail forward
- 0263 — Stop searching under streetlights
- 0454 – the echochamber is the siren
- 0274 — claw out of delusion
- 0323 — beware supernormal stimuli
- 0170 — question assumptions; what got you here won’t get you there
- 0247 — reminder to confront limiting beliefs
- 0408 – (resist the) tendency to talk in explanations
- 0552 – shed your past selves
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