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.
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.
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.
