Towards the end of university and particularly during the months after, I had my diet at the point where it was pretty much "ideal". The ideal diet (for me) consisted only of about 10 foods: Chicken Sweet potato Beans Tuna Eggs Pork chops Oatmeal Yogurt (usually Greek) Fruit and vegetables (usually in the form of green juice) This "ideal" diet … [Read more...] about How to Go From “Pretty Good” to “Ideal” in Any Area of Life
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Imagine That You Have No Head (A Trick to Realize There is No “You”)
This is a interesting trick that I picked up from Sam Harris' book Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion (Amazon). If this works for you (and it may not), it can be a quick and easy route to realizing that there is no 'you'; that there is no separate self inhabiting your consciousness and "experiencing your experience". What do I mean by this? If you're not … [Read more...] about Imagine That You Have No Head (A Trick to Realize There is No “You”)
Life is About Choices, Not Capacity (How my GPA went from 2.2 to 3.9)
First semester at university I got a 2.2 GPA. That was a ~58% average at my school and 0.3 away from being on academic probation. I rarely attended lectures, crammed for every exam, and completed all my assignments at the last minute due to not being able to fix extreme procrastination. I even ended up failing a course. The next semester wasn't much better, and all I cared … [Read more...] about Life is About Choices, Not Capacity (How my GPA went from 2.2 to 3.9)
Don’t Hate Your Old Self
I was about 16 when I first became "self aware". I was suddenly able see myself (somewhat) objectively and see where I was in life compared to where I ultimately wanted to be. For me at ~16, self awareness came along with the fact that I was now "consciously incompetent" in most important areas of life. I started trying to improve myself and (humbly) I have since come a long … [Read more...] about Don’t Hate Your Old Self
The One Thing that Determines Quality of Life
Your quality of life is ultimately determined by the standards you set for yourself. Do you pat yourself on the back for jogging once a week? Or do you hit the gym with intensity for an hour every other day, no questions asked? Maybe you have even higher standards and you lift five or six times a week. What is your "default time waster"? Is it watching TV? Or jerking off? Or … [Read more...] about The One Thing that Determines Quality of Life