Category: self improvement

  • Stop Extrapolating Your Perceptions

    DARIUS FOROUX OCTOBER 11, 2018 In Meditations, Marcus Aurelius said: “Stick with first impressions. Don’t extrapolate. And nothing can happen to you.” I bet that you’re extrapolating your perceptions all the time. Let me give you a few examples and tell whether I’m wrong. “House prices will probably keep increasing.” “That person will never change.” “My…

  • You Are Not Who You Say You Are

    ZAT RANA OCTOBER 16, 2018 You are not the words you define yourself by, and I am not the person with a disposition that can be captured by a written scene. I sometimes wonder what Ernest Hemingway was like. Not Hemingway the novelist, nor Hemingway the adventurer, but Hemingway the man — the Hemingway that lived,…

  • The Scientific Argument for Waking Up Early

    BENJAMIN P. HARDY  OCTOBER 16, 2018 Waking up early, working in a flow-state, and then completing your work early gives you a longer recovery period in your afternoon and evening. If you want to become elite at what you do, you need to consistently get better. High performance is all about putting in more “reps.”…

  • What Happens to Your Brain When You Sleep?

    Sleeping is more complicated than you think. When you drift off to catch some Zzzs, your brain goes through different, critical phases of activity. But like millions of adults with occasional sleeplessness, your plate may also be too full with professional and family pressures and to-do lists to de-stress, stay asleep and relax into each…

  • 5 Common Mental Errors That Sway You From Making Good Decisions

    by James Clear    |     Behavioral Psychology, Decision Making I like to think of myself as a rational person, but I’m not one. The good news is it’s not just me — or you. We are all irrational, and we all make mental errors. For a long time, researchers and economists believed that humans made logical, well-considered decisions. In…