self-discipline Featured Dopamine as energy allocation Scrolling isn't rest. It's junk volume — just like the exercise that makes you weaker instead of stronger.
self-discipline How to Lose Weight Weight loss isn't random. It just feels that way when you're watching the wrong indicators.
self-discipline How I read books (2012) Reading shouldn't be called reading - it’s like calling writing, or even programming, 'typing'. The reading part is easy and really unimportant.
self-discipline Featured Setting 2026 Goals Small successes are always better than ambitious failures when it comes to personal goal setting.
self-discipline Featured Apple Watch, but no iPhone An Apple Watch without an iPhone is the only way to be found, reach others, and not be distracted
self-discipline Featured It takes time to start My theory is that we resist pulling the trigger because we're afraid of missing.
self-discipline Featured Pursuing authenticity over outcomes As you grow, though, you should find your voice more and more. Life is not karaoke; it's a concert! And people paid good money to see you.
self-discipline Featured How to achieve all your New Year's resolutions If achieving yearly goals was easy, everybody would be doing it; yet most people don't.
self-discipline 2 steps back, 1 step forward Improving is a habit that requires you to become uncomfortable to keep growing.
self-discipline Choosing the right indicators Having the right indicators and measuring them correctly is critical for success, but much harder than it seems.
self-discipline Featured How I choose books to read My personal library has a curated list of books that I've previously chosen as interesting and that are immediately accessible in my living room for no extra cost.
self-discipline Featured Overcoming anxiety with self-efficacy Your anxiety decreases at the rate your mastery increases.
self-discipline Featured Lives Well Lived podcast I was on the Lives Well Lived podcast with Peter Singer & Kasia de Lazari Radek
self-discipline Knowledge, Practice, Trial and Performance One thing is certain: performing 100% of the time and not employing knowledge, practice, or trials is not an efficient way to improve your competencies
self-discipline Featured High expectations and high slopes of growth If we want to increase our growth the most over time, which characteristic will create the growth of the others?
self-discipline What are your gaps? Developing high standards through scorecards It's obvious, but often ignored, that to pursue high standards, you must have standards that are actually high.
self-discipline How to create a personal vision Visions must have 3 characteristics: They clearly contrast present and future, they are about outcomes "out there" in the real world, and they inspire us to act
self-discipline How to read a lot: Building focus and endurance It wasn't always this way. I started small and built up to this level of focus and endurance over many years of practice.
self-discipline Featured Setting strategic New Year resolutions Is that a strategic goal that leads you closer to your values, or just a reaction to things you wish you had more time for?
self-discipline Antifragility: Turning stress into strength Avoiding stress will prevent the adaptation required for growth. Not growing will, ironically, make us more easily stressed.
self-discipline Rest: sustaining high performance Top performance is characterized by the recovery necessary for the next peak, followed by the subsequent recovery.
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.
