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.

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YearCompass

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Failure to Launch

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Resignation is a choice too. Waiting for things to happen is a choice too. But none of these is a great way to make your life even the tiny bit the way you yearn for.

Don't let things happen to you, don't react to stimulus. Be the stimulant. Be the catalyst.

Navy SEALs have a saying.

You may find it helpful.

When something sucks, they look at each other and say:

" FULL BENEFIT "

It’s an instant mindset shift.

Hiking and it starts pouring rain?

Driving and your car breaks down?

Working on a project and lost a draft?

FULL BENEFIT.

LESSON: Adversity is an opportunity

The message is simple.

Every adversity is an... See more

Kyle Nitchen • Kyle Nitchen on Substack

FULL BENEFIT

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell. -Edward Abbey

“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

Without prejudice toward either philosopher, what we can say with confidence is that you will have a better chance of realizing happiness if you can see yourself as a dynamic agent of your own progress. If you’d like to become more Aristotelian in your self-understanding, here are three steps to get you started.

1. Find the person you want to be.

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Arthur Brooks • Are You a Platonist or an Aristotelian?

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After years of floundering, I think I'm finally getting it: You get energy by spending it. The fuel tank metaphor is completely misleading. The body supplies energy to meet demand. The tank *expands* if you use a lot of fuel. In other words, biology is fundamentally antifragile

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The major hindrance to what I can do with my life is the mental infrastructure holding me up. It's not great if I'm being honest, but I'm starting to realise how it's constructed affects how I perceive the world, and in turn engage with it.

I have been a prisoner of my mind and ideas like this are cracks in the wall, pouring in light and revealing this shoddy infrastructure that is my mind.

If you understand the true nature of thing, you can remake your reality by acting with the knowledge. This idea of energy has been incredibly revelatory.