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Mental Tools

12 Common Reading Mistakes You’re Making That You Need to Stop Making if You Want to Be Thin and Pretty Like Me

May 20, 2013
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Stop trying to read in massive chunks of time Most of life is waiting. Most of life is disjoint snippets of time: two, three, five minutes here or there. That’s when you read. Stop trying or waiting for some golden multi-hour block: Assume that you’re not gonna get it, because even if you did get it, your powers concentration wouldn’t...

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Step Into the Sunlight, But Don’t Look Into the Sun

April 30, 2013
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Step Into the Sunlight, But Don’t Look Into the Sun

The big, central goal, the sun around which our actions orbit, can overwhelm and disorient us with its size and power and magnitude. But you can take yourself and other people to any extreme of excellence or lameness if you narrow their mental focus away from the debilitatingly magnitudinous core goal and towards productive, forward-moving, helpful minutiae. In other...

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Intermediate Angst: Dealing With Feelings of Suckage

April 25, 2013
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This entry is part 3 of 8 in the series Intermediate AngstThus spake Hangul Fangirl (‏@HangulFangirl): “ How do you get past the feeling that you’re not progressing and end up forgetting to keep going? Self-study is hard for...

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How To Use People and Have Them Love You For It, Or: Don’t Fight Your Parents

April 20, 2013
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…we may be the sons of whomsoever we will. Households there are of noblest intellects; choose the one into which you wish to be adopted; you will inherit not merely their name, but even their property… ~ Seneca A child doesn’t compare himself to his parents. He’s glad to leech off and learn from them. Learn from your sempais...

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Whose Team Are You On?

April 15, 2013
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This entry is part 7 of 8 in the series Social Resistance“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.” African Proverb There you are. Immersing. Shadowing. Japanese books everywhere. Japanese sounds in your ear. And you’re starting to get a bit of negative attention. A bit of IRL trolling. They’re against you. They’re making fun...

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Method Over Morality: Don’t Improve Yourself. Stop Trying to Become a Better Person.

April 10, 2013
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“Much mischief results from our taking a moral position on matters which are not basically moral matters at all.” ~ Maxwell Maltz “More defeats and failures are due to mental blindness than to moral deviations.” ~ Raymond Holliwell 「不管白貓黑貓,能抓到老鼠就是好貓」 “It doesn’t matter whether it’s a white cat or a black cat; a cat that catches mice is a good...

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