leadership Avoid compromise and clarify goals In order to agree on how to achieve the goals, the team must first agree on the goals.
self-discipline Are you optimizing for feelings or outcomes? Nobody takes creatine because they like drinking wet baby powder.
self-discipline Competition as a path to self-awareness There's no false humility in competition – only real humility.
self-discipline Featured What if you only had 2 years to live? "If I knew I only had 2 years to live, would I make the same decisions about life I'm making now?"
self-discipline Have an activity to do right after work Suddenly, I started leaving work on time, but only on those 3 days a week when I needed to be at the gym by 6pm.
self-discipline Manufacturing needs for motivation and focus Because we often haven't clarified or understood the needs for the activities we perform, these needs don't help us focus on outcomes and don't create motivation.
self-discipline How to balance constraints No magic allows us to sleep all day and spend our free time on our phones but also to be incredibly healthy, energetic, and productive. We must choose what we really value.
self-discipline Going fast is different from rushing While rushing is about what you're doing now, being fast is about what you've done over the past several years.
self-discipline Featured Hold on to constraints In which I hold on to constraints by using only consonants, "a," "i," "o," and "u"
self-discipline Make important things automatic By automating operations and decisions through choice architecture, we leverage our status quo bias and ensure important tasks get consistently done.
self-discipline Drive: The desire to strive Drive is when desire and striving align. The actions we take from our desires and those necessary for our striving are so aligned that achieving the future we want feels good.
self-discipline Featured Why we have unhealthy desires and how to stop We must reflect not on whether fulfilling the desire feels good but whether it is good by the criteria of goodness of our values.
meta Vacation and starting a dialogue So on my vacation, besides reading a lot, I plan to reflect on how to expand my audience while staying authentic. I'd love to hear from you.
self-discipline Restarting what we stopped (or getting back on the horse) Getting off the horse happens sometimes, and it's okay. I enjoy my time off the horse without guilt because I know I'll be back on the horse soon.
105 hours 105 hours: Self-Imposed Routines When it comes to routines, the goal is months and years, not days and weeks. Routines are about what we can consistently do over long periods of time.
105 hours Featured 105 hours: One thing at a time Every time we multitask, at least one of those "tasks" is done on a digital device such as our smartphone, computer, or TV.
105 hours 105 hours: Making time to be alone Solitude is not a luxury; it's a necessary part of life.
105 hours Featured 105 hours: TV is a behavioral drug We use TV for similar reasons we may use alcohol, sweets, and other drugs: for their psychoactive effects.
105 hours 105 hours: No time for TV We're always "behind," like watching TV shows was a task we're failing to accomplish.
105 hours 105 hours: Control computer internet use The idea of commitment devices is to set things up such that we're prevented from doing things we don't want to do
105 hours 105 hours: No smartphone and emergencies We are more concerned about not being available for others than about our own emergencies.
105 hours 105 hours: No time for smartphones We cuff ourselves to the firehose, throw the key away, and then complain of being wet.
105 hours: No time for the internet I use a set of tactics and principles to manage my time. I call it 105 hours. It helps me allocate the 105 hours I have in the week. Today, we spend many of those hours on the internet. But what if we chose not to? A day without the
105 hours 105 hours: Buy your chores time back It's an exchange of money for time. I'm buying my time back.
