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Decision Fatigue: How to Be Your Best Self Always
Deciding is mental work and has a mental cost. Just as physical labor tires us, so too does mental labor. The product of a rapidly-emerging…
September 28, 2011
Living with the Power of Self Knowledge: Humans are not rational decision making machines, duh!
One of the worst “gifts” of traditional economics to our culture was the idea the rational man—a cool, calm, calculating machine whose analytical thought process…
May 23, 2013
False Comfort: The Allure of Self-Sabotaging Behaviors
Any behavior that creates more problems than it solves is self sabotaging. Too often we yield to the temptation of a temporary relief only to…
October 27, 2011
Self as Subject
When was the last time you studied yourself? As in a topic well worth knowing? In Depth? To avoid squandering the precious gift of life,…
October 12, 2021
Five Steps to Your Best Self
You have GREATNESS within you, waiting for you to fully activate it. You want more, know you are capable of more, interested in being better, growing, learning,…
July 23, 2020
Becoming a Self-Directed Learner: A Key to Super-Powered Living
Passive Learning Passive learning is where students sit inertly while a teacher gallantly attempts to capture and direct their attention, somehow forcing knowledge into submissive…
June 6, 2011
The Disingenuous Art of Distracting Ourselves From Ourselves
Who are you running to and what are you running from? We must be careful not to fill our lives so full to the brim…
August 25, 2015
Paths to Apatheia
Apatheia in Stoic philosophy is a calm state of mind where one’s composure is not disrupted by negative emotions. It is most assuredly not indifference…
December 9, 2021
Craft Your Self-Concept with Care
Who do you think you are? What do you believe yourself capable of? And where did those beliefs come from? Do they serve you or…
April 4, 2023
The Simple Secret to Self-Control
When we see someone who seems to have it all together, who exhibits good habits and good self-control, we tend to attribute it to good…
May 28, 2019