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.
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"
