Filling Your Glass and Fighting Hedonic Adaptation Filling Your Glass and Fighting Hedonic AdaptationThere's a concept called hedonic adaptation, which says that we quickly adjust to any increased level of comfort or luxury and cease to appreciate it. Anything good that happens to us b... Mar 27, 2014 10,162views 0
Not Being a Robot Not Being a RobotOne of my overarching goals in how I present myself is to be consistent. Although the relationships I have with my family, friends, acquaintances, and random people on the internet is a... Mar 24, 2014 7,903views 0
The Experience the Other Person Wants to Have The Experience the Other Person Wants to HaveI know that I'm more self centered than I should be. It's something I work on, not by instructing myself to be less self centered, which is too foggy a command to actually obey, but thr... Mar 21, 2014 9,271views 1
Making Rules for Yourself Making Rules for YourselfI don't notice that I have a million rules for myself until someone hears about one, asks if I have others, and the conversation lasts for hours. I know that even with all of the discip... Mar 18, 2014 11,883views 0
Why I'll Be Writing Every Day For Two Years Why I'll Be Writing Every Day For Two Years"Are you kidding me? I've been telling everybody that you write a blog post every single day!" Sebastian just learned that I fell off of my writing-every-single-day habit, and became ou... Mar 14, 2014 10,355views 0
Make Fewer Decisions to Produce More Make Fewer Decisions to Produce MoreI want to produce at a superhuman level. Looking back over a year, I'd like to wonder just how I got so much done in such a short period of time. At my best I can execute to that standa... Mar 11, 2014 9,449views 0
Being Willing to be Neutral Being Willing to be NeutralA couple months ago I watched the Wolf of Wall Street with some friends. As the credits began to roll, I started to consolidate my opinion on the move. Did I love it? Did I hate it? I c... Mar 6, 2014 8,892views 0
Principles I Live By Principles I Live ByMost of what we do is subconscious, driven by our habits. The rest is conscious, primarily driven by our principles. In addition to dictating our conscious actions, principles also guid... Mar 3, 2014 10,848views 0
Where I'll Be In 2024 Where I'll Be In 2024A couple days ago, during a rest period of a workout, Leo asked me if I was different now than I was ten years ago. My gut reaction was to say that, no, I was pretty much exactly the sa... Feb 28, 2014 9,685views 1
Dealing With the Pain of Breaking Up Dealing With the Pain of Breaking UpOne of the things that's missing from my writing is emotion, and I know it. I'm always trying to correct that by looking for ways to add emotion to my writing, but I rarely find them. T... Feb 25, 2014 9,017views 0
Carry the Weight Carry the Weight[Note: If you're in San Francisco or Austin, read the bolded part at the very bottom!] For most of my life, at least until my late twenties, I was a slacker. I did almost nothing to hel... Feb 21, 2014 11,759views 0
Doing Things That Aren't Supposed to Be Done Doing Things That Aren't Supposed to Be DoneThe first example I can remember was when my friends and I, nineteen at the time, bought a forty foot long school bus. The idea was so absurd and without precedent, that it seemed impos... Feb 18, 2014 11,546views 0
