Cognitive Reprogramming
A long-term project learning practices in using physical micro actions, thoughts and verbal cues to activate desired mental and emotional states on demand.
Cognitive Reprogramming
As the writer David Cain points out, we never have time in the same sense that we have the cash in our wallets or the shoes on our feet. When we claim that we have time, what we really mean is that we expect it. “We assume we have three hours or three days to do something,” Cain writes, “but it never actually comes into our possession.” Any number ... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
“Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do.”
― Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
The unexamined life is not worth living
— Socrates
billion dollar idea from @m_ashcroft: learn how to distinguish “this feels wrong” (harmful to me) from “this feels wrong” (unfamiliar to me)
Could see this possible with daemons or familiars in the future.
Your mind is programmable. If you’re not programming it, then someone else will program it for you
The best way to control your emotional capital is to fine tune your internal monologue and replace your hunger for approval with a desire to grow.