Life & Self Improvement

The TLDR of all these articles is this:

• Be healthy. Health is most important.
• Develop and rely on good habits and core values. They provide good default fallbacks.

All Articles

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  Values are 'now'. Act!

  Give up on thinking about the outcome. Do what needs to be done. Following your values is complete in itself. The outcome is a bonus.

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  Why psychological work and/or therapy are important and shouldn't be ignored?

  Psychology and therapy are evidence-based approaches that can expedite problem-solving. Common misconceptions include the belief that therapy is unnecessary and that therapists solely resolve issues. Addressing these misconceptions aids in determining the need for therapy, either for yourself or someone you know.

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  Journey Through Phase 1 Challenge of the Live Hard Program

  Phase 1 in the second part of the live hard program after 75 Hard. I was able to do all the tasks of 75 Hard and 3 other tasks that were needed including the 8 critical taks. In this post, I share my journey and tips.

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  Notes on Here's Why Trauma Is So Common (A Deep Dive Into Understanding Trauma)

  Notes from HealthyGamerGG podcast. If there is one thing we need to learn about how to play the game of life well, understand trauma.

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  Thinking in terms of exponential grow over linear growth

  Mindsets and statergies to apply exponential progress to life, business and beyond.

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  My Journey through the 75 Hard Challenge

  75 hard is a mental toughness challenge which includes 2 times workouts a day, diet, 1 gallon of water and reading 10 pages of a book every day without compromise. I completed the challenge. In this post, I share my journey and tips.

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  Make yourself do it

  How do you exercise discipline? What stops it? It's emotions. How do you overcome your emotions and short-term impulses?

  When you just want to get work done without anything stopping you.

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  You can’t logic your way out of depression.

  Notes from HealthyGamerGG podcast. Use emotions to solve emotional problems first only then apply logic. (Pathos first; Logos later).

  You are facing a sad or depressive situation.

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  Keep your Karma Ledger clean

  We should not avoid good action. Good action has good results in the long term. It may seem easy to avoid good action in the short term. But good action is the only path to the best outcome.

  you are thinking if there is a reward in good action. Or if you think you can get away by avoiding responsibility.

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  Core Values are Not Optional

  you feel it's okay to not follow your core values just this once.

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  Truthful Optimistic approach to bouncing back from major loss

  Instead of seeing failure as a personal flaw or a permanent setback, see it as an opportunity for growth and improvement. Focus on learning from your mistakes and using them to become better in the future.

  You experiences a loss and are thinking about it.

• Remind yourself of your core values at all times.

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  Let other people see your values

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  Let the world do what it wants to do, you follow your core values

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  Stepping aside from the game of “success” and comparison

  Why comparison with others is stupid and why the only person you should compare to is who you were yesterday

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  Decoding the difference between healthy love and unhealthy attachment, and choosing healthy love.

  Love is a selfless emotion that focuses on the well-being of the other person, while attachment is a selfish emotion that centers on our own well-being. It's essential to catch ourselves when we act out of attachment and try to shift our focus to acting out of love

  You feel and are not sure about what to do.

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  Why should you be internally disciplined?

  Internal discipline is an antifragile source of motivation that gets the job done, eliminates the need for "how" questions, makes you stronger, and allows you to focus on achieving your goals without relying on external systems or motivators.

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  Karma and Karmafal - An Introduction

  Karma is the action we take, while Karmafal is the result of our actions, and by detaching ourselves from the outcome, we can focus on doing our best and live a more empowered life.

• The many ways of using Ethos Pathos Logos

  Ethos, Pathos and Logos are techniques of persuasion. But are applications of it in making clear decisions and better interpersonal dynamics, especially in high-emotion situations.

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  7 Tools To Make Good Love Choices

  कर्म करो और फल की चिंता मत करो

  you want to neutralize your thoughts and make good long term decisions.

• Stating the Truth When It Could Hurt

  Why we should use the vocabulary 'stating'. And how can we state the truth.

• My Core Beliefs from Feb 2023

  The fundamental operating system

• My Core Values Summary from Feb 2023

  The fundamental operating system

• Nihilism of The Modern Age. And Traditional Roles to the Rescue.

  Why traditional roles of men and women are relevant?

• How to plan mid-day?

• Desk Setup

• How I use ChatGPT as an AI Assist?

• My Blindspots

• Need for Optimizing Inputs in the Modern World

  How Our Needs, Environment, and Choices Shape Our Lives

• Why we should strive to tell the truth always?

• Implement Zero Trust in Real Life

  Catching lies, liars and protecting yourself

• Productive use of time

• Creating Systems To Automate Goal Achievement

• Living a truthful life

• Designing and implementing a Morning and Night Rituals for optimal life

  Why morning and night rituals are essential? Why they aren’t replaceable by mid-day activity? And how to plan them optimally for 500x return on investment?

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  Actually solve the problem.

  And escape it. It's a more empowering path and maybe the only path.

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  Why do I write?

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  Keep messages unread

  Subtle art of not giving a fuck about stupid things

• Developing better self-awareness with QuantifiedSelf - Observability for personal life.

  Why do you need to have personal metrics? And how can they help you make informed decisions and stay on the path?

• Core Attributes

  Developing better instinctive reactions to unknown situations

• Getting out of the house is the way you become a responsible ball of energy.

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  You can have good intentions but still do the wrong things. So, keep moving towards good action too.

• Stress is the root cause of all health problem. Fix it.

• Migatteno Gokui

• Core Values V2

• Deal with health problems by becoming a domain expert in the field so that you can collaborate better with doctors

• We only see what we do badly because the reward of doing work well is just peace.

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  Keep Yourself Polished All the Time

• Core Values Overtime - Pointers, Motivations

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  Aim to be between Type A and B

• How to take advice that suggests being fake?

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  Perfection isn't an attainable goal. We are always a step closer to it.

  Why failing forward is the only way?

• Negotiations

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  We are all narcissist!

  Everyone has snakes. We have it too.

• On Building Trust

• Understanding Boundaries and Why They Are the Key To Better Life

• Strategies to be Calmer

• Reason to aim for social confidence

  If you don't, no one takes you seriously.

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  Truth and Fidility

• Why memorizing is still relevant?

• Ways towards Freedom

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  Shadow Clone of Ideas

• Choosing Images/Diagrams in Essays

• Question Driven Writing

  Improving quality and speed of writing by transferring a well-known software development practice.

• Thinking on Paper

• Being good at one thing doesn't automatically make you better at another

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  Strategies on becoming more productive

• Human Intuition while working in Technology

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  Strategies on Truth

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  Strategies on Team Work

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  Ownership

  The more personal responsibility you take on and fullfil, the more incontrol you’ll feel. This will give you strength and power.

• Articulate Fully

• Personal Budgeting

• Time Assets and Liabilities

• My Core Values

  The fundamental operating system

• Learning Strategies For Development

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  Choosing better values

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  Making Internet Less Distracting

  Dodge Recommender Systems

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  Research Fast, Understand the Gist, Apply, Iterate, and Move Forward

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  Piano

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  Collection of Thoughts on Writing