In Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig wrote, “Steel can be any shape you want if you are skilled enough, and any shape but the one you want if you are not.” In this book, you’re going to learn how personality is shaped, and how you yourself can and should be its shaper. You’ll learn to be the architect and blacksmith of your p... See more

Seth Godin, who purposefully doesn’t read the comments on Amazon about his books. He used to do so, but it only left him feeling horrible and questioning himself. So now he has stopped.

Sure, it’s helpful when growing up to get guidance and direction, but fundamental to maturity is making your own decisions, defining a meaningful purpose for yourself, and elevating yourself and others through that purpose.

Selective ignorance is something that must be applied if you’re serious about becoming your future self. Your input shapes your identity, biology, and personality. When you change your inputs, all of these change.

Math trauma manifests as anxiety or dread, and an incapacitating fear of being wrong, according to Dr. Ruef. Tragically, this fear limits options such as school and desired career choices for many people—not because they couldn’t do math but because trauma-induced fear paralyzed them.

An obvious way to see that our personality has changed over time is how we respond to our previous decisions. People often remove tattoos their former selves thought were a good idea. People divorce partners their former selves assumed they’d always love. People work hard to lose belly fat their former selves had no problem eating to gain. People q... See more

As the British philosopher Alain de Botton said, “Anyone who isn’t embarrassed by who they were twelve months ago isn’t learning enough.”

Thinking about yourself, what would happen if your future self came to you and told you that everything you want to see happen was going to happen? Would you believe them? The answer better be yes. Because unless you believe it, it’s not going to happen. You need to be fully committed to becoming your future self and all that involves. That commitm... See more

Life starts taking on a whole new meaning when you begin thinking right now what your future self will want. Rather than making decisions based on your current identity, you could begin making decisions your future self would love and appreciate.