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How To Keep Your Ego In Check And Your Soul In Tune
Awake to your life, connect the dots of your entire story, and don't forget that the ego is just a nametag.
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How To Keep Your Ego In Check And Your Soul In Tune
3 Rock-Solid Ways To Piece Together A Peaceful Mind
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3 Rock-Solid Ways To Piece Together A Peaceful Mind
Peace of mind isn't something easily attained, but it's also not as hard as you might think. When I reflect back on when I have the most peace of mind, it has a lot do with these 3 things.
How To Induce An Obsession
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How To Induce An Obsession
Discover who you are and what you're good at, then pour all your energy into it.
Playing Vs. Delaying The Dharma Game
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Playing Vs. Delaying The Dharma Game
Don't get caught up in culture's tricks of influence. You're in the game whether you act like it or not. But if you're not careful you'll find yourself adding in extra steps between you and your dharma.
The Enkrateia Effect: How I Followed Through On What I Set Out To Do (Despite Being Tempted At Every Turn)
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The Enkrateia Effect: How I Followed Through On What I Set Out To Do (Despite Being Tempted At Every Turn)
The thing I want most is self-mastery. This experience gave me a taste of what's possible and taught me a valuable lesson about akrasia & enkrateia. These insights will help you follow through on your aims too.
Hair-Trigger Eagerness: Why Patience Takes The Self-Created Pressure Off And Allows For Divine Timing
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Hair-Trigger Eagerness: Why Patience Takes The Self-Created Pressure Off And Allows For Divine Timing
Life is a waiting game that can get the best of us. Here's how to prevent that.
Pioneer Mindset: Why Frontiers Are A Flow State’s Favorite Place
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Pioneer Mindset: Why Frontiers Are A Flow State’s Favorite Place
If you want flow, look into your frontiers: who you are, your abilities & skills, and your unique story arc.
Intradependence: How To Leverage Your Inner Resources So That You Can Become Self-Assured And Thrive In The Unknown
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Intradependence: How To Leverage Your Inner Resources So That You Can Become Self-Assured And Thrive In The Unknown
When we are disconnected from our sense of self, it helps to understand our inner resources. Then we will be able to develop our intradependence and thrive in the unknown.
Flow Games: What We Can Learn From The Transcendent Overlap Of Extreme Sports And Shamanism
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Flow Games: What We Can Learn From The Transcendent Overlap Of Extreme Sports And Shamanism
You can use risk to attract flow, use psycho-technologies to drop in, or even get there through the steady practice of attention training.
State-Shifts & Schedules: Jamie Wheal on Hedonic Engineering (and the Benefits of Planning Out Your Altered States)
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State-Shifts & Schedules: Jamie Wheal on Hedonic Engineering (and the Benefits of Planning Out Your Altered States)
Your relationship to altered states should be planned out in advance. For too many, it's based on whims & DM's. Get your practices on a calendar, find balance, and tap into the full range of human experience - sustainably.
The Art Of Satisficing: Why Making 'Good Enough' Decisions Are Optimal For Minimizing Regret
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The Art Of Satisficing: Why Making 'Good Enough' Decisions Are Optimal For Minimizing Regret
Acting on the unknown is how we have to operate most of the time in life. Inevitably, we will regret not making the perfect decision, but it's still more important to keep things moving.
The Sacred Depth Of Being A Black Sheep & Finding Your Way
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The Sacred Depth Of Being A Black Sheep & Finding Your Way
Exploring the sacred depth of one of the best pieces I've been re-reading often. (It just touches my soul so much that I can't not do it)
Flow’s Pattern: 4 Quick Frameworks For Getting Into Flow States More Often So That You Can Boost Performance, Explore What’s New, And Transcend Your Comfort Zone
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Flow’s Pattern: 4 Quick Frameworks For Getting Into Flow States More Often So That You Can Boost Performance, Explore What’s New, And Transcend Your Comfort Zone
The sweet spot to evolving beyond what you currently are lies just outside what you can do now. You must feel as though you’re leveraging every bit of talent you possess. Doing all you can with what you’ve got. These 4 quick frameworks will help you drop into flow more often.
Creating A Sphere Of Influence That Actually Serves You
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Creating A Sphere Of Influence That Actually Serves You
Getting a grip on your social feeds for maximum benefit isn't as hard as you might think. Here are 3 things to cut out and 1 more to engage deeply with.
Creativity's Beneficial Blindspot
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Creativity's Beneficial Blindspot
Bringing any idea from imagination into the 3D world is going to be way way harder than you'd imagine. Perhaps this is good that we don't see, initially, the full extent of how hard something will be to see through to the end. It's a blindspot of the creative process, yet even if we're aware of the challenge ahead...do it anyway.