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To Achieve Your Goals, Monitor Your Progress!

April 19, 2016 Dom 7 Comments

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"What gets measured gets managed." Is it true? In their meta-study (2016), Harkin and his colleagues analyzed 138 scientific studies to find out whether people who monitored their goal progress were in fact more likely to attain their goal than those who didn't. The results were positive: Monitoring goal progress promoted goal attainment. The more often the progress was monitored, the more likely the goal was attained. Why? Because monitoring your progress helps you identify where … [Read more...]

Theory discipline, masculinity, success

Rumination & Worry Fuck up Your Body

April 17, 2016 Dom 10 Comments

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Do you often ruminate about the past or worry about the future? The death of a friend, the girl that broke up with you, the lady you want to date, the money you're not sure you're going to make, the presentation tomorrow,… We know that rumination and worry are bad. Nothing good ever comes from it. As a human being you can't live in the present moment all the time, no matter how enlightened the old man trying to sell you that idea looks like. You can't live in the present moment when your … [Read more...]

Theory embodied cognition, emotions, mindfulness, psychology

Willpower: Lessons in Self-Discipline #5

April 16, 2016 Dom 9 Comments

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The fifth principle in my willpower series states: Love what you do! Joe Rogan frequently gets asked how he can be so disciplined and have such an outstanding work ethic to accomplish such different things as to write and perform standup comedy, commentate for the UFC, host one of the world's greatest podcasts, spend time with his family raising his two daughters, train jiu-jitsu, practice pool and bow-hunting, go on hunting trips, etc. Joe's answer is always the same: "It's easy because I … [Read more...]

Mastery discipline, masculinity, self-discipline, success, willpower

Should You Use Willpower to Deal With Anxiety?

April 14, 2016 Dom 21 Comments

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There are two types of emotion regulation: implicit regulation: automatic strategies explicit regulation: conscious, effortful strategies What neuroscientists (e.g., Etkin et al. 2015) describe as implicit emotion regulation is equivalent to defense mechanisms (Rice 2016)—manipulations and distortions of reality in order to defend against anxiety, to protect one's ego. Some common examples are: "I fear nothing whatsoever." (denial) "In my mind I'm a fearless superhero." … [Read more...]

Mastery anxiety, embodied cognition, emotions, mindfulness, psychology, willpower

The Path to Mindcoolness #3 – Asking Why

April 9, 2016 Dom 6 Comments

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Why do you want to grow stronger? Why do you want to be successful? Why do you want to be a winner? Why do you want to be respected? Why do you want to be loved? Why do you want to be happy? In his unpublished manuscripts, Nietzsche wrote: sieh hinaus! sieh nicht zurück! man geht zugrunde, wenn man immer zu den Gründen geht This exhortation translates roughly into: "forward look! look not back! one perishes, if one always reverts to the grounds." It's an invocation of … [Read more...]

Mastery anxiety, mindcoolness, mindfulness, philosophy

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Dom is a European man keenly devoted to the gods of sylvan wisdom. He is also a cognitive scientist and philosopher by training, a data scientist by trade, and a strength athlete and martial artist at heart. [Read more…]

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Key Definitions

1. A man’s True Will is what he would want to do if he had perfect knowledge of himself.

2. Mindcoolness is, positively, gratitude for one’s own and other people’s will; negatively, absence of rumination and worry.

3. Freedom is the degree to which a man does what he truly wants with a cool mind.

4. Rationality is the most effective way for a man to grow free and do his True Will.

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