Category: Mental Models

If you need to get something done and you’re not doing it because you’re wasting your time on meaningless entertainment. Then it’s probably not the thing you need to get done or the entertainment that’s the problem. It’s the fact that you have nothing in between those two things. Doing stuff is hard. And entertainment…

If you think life is boring. Remember there are many things you can try in the world and no matter how much you think you’ve tried you’ve seen very little. If you think the world around you is boring it’s because you haven’t looked close enough. Yes, everyone eats food, makes love and hopes for…

Most of life is complicated by defining success as something far away in the future that’s unclear. If you want to be successful and your definition of success is something twenty years from now, and you don’t know what it takes to get there. Then your life is very complicated. If you want to be…

Believing in yourself without proof is one of the most ridiculous things ever brought up by the self development world. Unstoppable belief without any evidence to back the belief is truly one of the most powerful things in the world. It’s the basis of most religions and it can enable a person to do things…

You can be incredible. But you don’t know what form that incredible will take. Skill sets and accomplishments are developed over time and the path is winding. If you come up with a vision for the person you want to become it can fuel you to push towards that person. But you have to remember…

Your mind wants everything. Candy, success, money, fame… it doesn’t matter. Whatever you find yourself chasing, you’ll find that a part of you wants as much of it as possible. Because the panic of daily life optimizes for good things. It doesn’t optimize for good things over time. You have to choose that. When chasing…

If you define your life according to your good days. Then you won’t have many. Because if you have a good day where you’re performing at a high level and then make that your standard you will feel like a failure most of the time. And when you do have a good day and you’re…

You can’t teach anyone without establishing common ground. It’s great that you know a lot of stuff and you’ve researched it and you know for sure that it’s true. But if that truth says something different from what everyone believes, you can’t expect them to now believe you. You have to be willing to connect…

If you’re wasting a lot of time, then it’s probably because you’re not willing to waste a little bit of time on a healthy activity that will make you feel good enough to stop wasting time and get to work. We often wait around on our phones because we feel that taking a break for…

If you try to understand everything you won’t get anything done. But if you don’t try to understand things enough you also will run into a lot of trouble. The learning experience is a practice of assimilating a small amount of information into an understanding and then acting on that understanding, then, through the practice…