There are two extraordinarily simple things that I’ve done consistently over the past seven years that I could put 99% of my physical and intellectual growth down to (and with
I find most self-help achievement stuff often too convoluted and distracting to actually help me.
Here’s a simple model for making insane stuff happen in your life that actually works.
There are
It’s almost insulting how little the actual total invested hours seems to matter, once you control for consistency (showing up every week) and just look at the time elapsed since starting the practice.
So what does this imply for our learning efforts?
If you’ve ever not wanted to exercise, or forgo the nice food you want to eat, then I have news for you.
You’re a sane human being.
We often think that getting
I stumbled on a big lesson recently that underpins much of the success I've had with strength and fitness:
You need goals that are achievable.
By that I don’t mean modest and
When we haven’t achieved something yet (e.g., building our dream body, reading 300 hundred books, meditating daily for year straight) we often think that doing so requires a heap of
Your emotional and motivational system is your ally, not your enemy. It wants what’s best for you, even when you don’t agree rationally with it on what that is. Your intuition is telling you something about those jogs, or those classes, or whatever screwed up program you’ve been spinning your wheels at lately.