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Make Your Own Rules
“People get better at regulating their impulses. They learn how to distract themselves from temptations. And once you’ve gotten into that willpower groove, your brain is practiced at helping you focus on a goal.
Charles Duhigg • The Power of Habit
his guidelines are more like a fundamental code of everyday living: - know your long-range purposes - work in the service of some cause that you can respect - attempt to live and work in an environment in line with your own innate values - develop a philosophy of gratitude - reduce procrastination – it can be dangerous - use muscular activity to al
... See moreGregg Krech • The Art of Taking Action: Lessons from Japanese Psychology
Make friends. It is dangerous to go alone. You heal yourself by helping others. Be kind and serve others. We can do more together than we can do alone.
Find out how you are fucked up. “They fuck you up your mom and dad, they don’t mean to but they do…” You inherited all sorts of bullshit that you don’t even know.
Own your shit and fix it. You will ne... See more
Find out how you are fucked up. “They fuck you up your mom and dad, they don’t mean to but they do…” You inherited all sorts of bullshit that you don’t even know.
Own your shit and fix it. You will ne... See more
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The meaning of life is something like: To trade the constraints imposed upon you by others, for constraints you impose upon yourself. If you fail to design your own choice architecture, one will be assigned to you. The brain loves efficiency; the brain wants to preserve bandwidth; but the brain is agnostic as to who installs the routines. When ever
... See moreRichard Meadows • Optionality: How to Survive and Thrive in a Volatile World
Andrea Zittel • Andrea Zittel, "These Things I Know for Sure"
What gets in the way of following your own path are all the rules you have collected over the years about how things are supposed to be. These inner rules, described in the work of therapist Albert Ellis as "Ought-ism" and "Must-erbation," quickly become the invisible bars of a mental prison-and like a real prison, for as long a
... See moreMichael Neill • You Can Have What You Want: Proven Strategies for Inner and Outer Success
Each time you visit, thoughts that don’t kill you will make you stronger. But there’s always the chance that you’ll think that one thought that can break your mind.
Life rules won’t prevent that happening, but they’ll make sure you’re dressed in a dignified way for it. As Woody Allen said, eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for
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Creating personal rules is a powerful technique for protecting yourself from your own weaknesses and limitations. Sometimes those rules have surprising benefits.