Mindset

Have you ever heard someone say "Most people can't [___________]"? A person will be describing their goals or aspirations for success and then someone else will say, "Don't you know that most people can't [___________]"? Most people can't - fill in the blank however you want. Most people can't get rich. Most people can't be successful entrepreneurs. Most people can't … [Read more...] about Most People Can’t — — — — (But I Can)

Everyone is highly individualistic and your year will be too. This is not a technical “how-to” but rather a collection of suggestions that - depending on your strengths and weaknesses, where you are and where you want to go - will serve you in different ways in the year to come. But regardless of where you find yourself right now, for each and every one of you reading - 2016 … [Read more...] about How to Make 2016 the Best Year of Your Life

In Buddhism there's a concept called "The Second Arrow" - Thich Nhat Hahn explains here: The Buddha speaks about the "second arrow". When an arrow strikes you, you feel pain. If a second arrow comes and strikes you in the same spot, the pain will be ten times worse. The Buddha advised that when you have some pain in your body or your mind, breathe in and out and recognize the … [Read more...] about The Invisible First Obstacle To Any Success (& How to Overcome It)

Are you a weird, strange, abnormal person? It's all good - so am I. The older I get, the more comfortable I am with it. I like to do things most people don't like to do. The way I think about things is different from how most people do. This is not a "I am too cool for the mainstream" brag - it's the truth. Sometimes it's to my detriment and people think I'm weird. They … [Read more...] about Embrace Being a Fucking Weirdo

Imagine if next time you took out the garbage, rather than carry it outside to the bin, you tore the bag open and emptied the smelly, disgusting contents all over your bedroom. This sounds ridiculous, but it is exactly what most people do with their mind. They treat their mind like a trash bin, filling it with garbage day in day out. In the same way that you take care of your … [Read more...] about Stop Feeding Your Mind Garbage

The value of thinking (!) in self improvement Thinking gets a bad rap in self improvement, and often for good reason. The focus is always on action and "doing" to balance out the tendency for people to be up in their heads way too much and stuck in "analysis paralysis". For the most part, I think this is a good thing and generally one should trend towards action over … [Read more...] about Think More to Improve Your Life: How to Destroy Harmful Beliefs by Having a Socratic Dialogue with Yourself

You're looking for an answer. You've been looking for a while, probably on the internet. You read blogs, forums, watch Youtube videos, search Google, all trying to find… the answer. What's the secret to getting jacked? How can I be more confident? How do I find my passion and purpose in life? What's the trick to getting laid with a lot girls? How do I make passive income … [Read more...] about Nowhere Has The Answer You’re Looking For (Here’s Where to Look Instead)

Discipline is a highly sought-after trait, and at some point in their lives everyone wishes for more willpower, greater self-control, and wonders how to be more disciplined. It's no surprise. With enough discipline you can do anything you want in life, because it allows you to spend your time exactly as you please. If you are lacking discipline and self-control, then learning … [Read more...] about How to Be More Disciplined (2 Methods That Actually Work)

Are we products of our environment? I was raised in a household that valued intellectualism, worldliness, and mostly left wing cultural and political values. My parents grew up during the 60s/70s and were both, for a time, academics in the social sciences. My upbringing reflected this. It was good in many ways, and bad in some. It might sound silly, but my first real effort … [Read more...] about Why Getting Rich is the Most Moral Thing You Can Do

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)

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

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

"When your feet cold, mines is sizzlin'" —Jay Z Do you pay enough attention to your inner dialogue? The conversation you have with yourself, day by day, moment by moment, largely determines the actions you take on a regular basis. These actions become habits, and habits in the long term are your character. Character is destiny. Most of the time, you can't control what … [Read more...] about “Do it Anyway” is Always the Right Answer

Some time ago I took a deload week from lifting. A deload week is when you go to the gym like you normally would, but lift at maybe 50-60% of either the volume or intensity (or both) that you're used to. Conventional advice says to take a deload week every 6-8 weeks (with the exception of beginners). This allows your body the time it needs to fully catch up on recovery, and … [Read more...] about Aggressive Expression is Necessary for Good Quality of Life