Category: Mindset
This video delivers a single, unifying message beneath its many examples: clarity and focus determine your future. Whether you’re trying to build good habits, break bad ones, or pursue a meaningful goal, progress begins by deciding what you want and what you must stop doing to stop sabotaging yourself. Want More? A lot of the…
What do you do when your discipline collapses and momentum dies? In this video, Improvement Pill answers a simple but uncomfortable question: how do you recover from a period of self-inflicted stagnation. His answer is a deliberately brutal ritual he calls a dopamine fast. By removing nearly every source of pleasure for a full day,…
I recall reading years ago that a trait of highly successful people is an inclindation towards having an “action bias”. In other words, they have a tendency to favor action over inaction, often to their long-term benefit. They get more reps in while less successful people overanalyze and prepare for action they never take. They…
A vision board is a form of constant reminder of where you are going in life. If you want to point yourself in a particular direction, then a vision board might be helpful. Some benefits of a vision board are that it reminds you who you want to be. This clarity can have a positive…
Chase Hughes, founder and CEO of Applied Behavior Research, leading behavior expert, and author, describes how to use the “brainwashing formula” on ourselves to produce positive change in this video. He proposes the following acronym: F.E.A.R. Want More? Chase recommends using a vision board. There are many ways to accomplish this. It can be a…
Learning a new skill, starting to work out, or launching a new business, or any significant life-changing project is hard work. The early stages of these activities are unpleasant, even painful. This post describes a principle that can help you get over this hump. Magnus Carlsen is a Norwegian chess grandmaster and currently considered to…
OK. Just hear me out. I recently watched a video where Hikaru Nakamura, American chess grandmaster, streamer, YouTuber, five-time U.S. Chess Champion, and the 2022 World Fischer Random Chess Champion made the claim that all serious chess players are addicted to the game. And this got me thinking … We normally think of addiction as…
Tyler1 is an American online streamer, professional League of Legends player, and bodybuilder. After finding fame streaming and gaming, Tyler1 decided to become good at playing chess. Then, contrary to all reasonable expectations, he went from a beginner 199 rating to a 1,960 rating on Chess.com in the space of 9 and a half months.…
The title of this post says it all. In the video below, Mark Manson discusses with surprising insight a struggle that some of us are having as we try to reconcile the differences between how we view ourselves and how the world seems to view us. Spoiler alert: if you can relate to the title,…
Behavioral expert and founder and CEO of Applied Behavior Research, Chase Hughes, likes to say that discipline is the gateway drug to everything else in authority over us. Once you acquire self-discipline, you can develop confidence, composure and so much more. Chase defines discipline as your ability to prioritize the needs of your future self…
