Psychology

How many ways can you see the world?

Are you a coder? A marketer? A designer? A manager? A systems thinker? A writer?

We might call these labels or professions, but they are really filters. Filters on reality that make it look different from what it is. A biologist sees a…

Wear a different self

This is what I do
This is what I don’t do

This is who I am
This is who I am not

When we’re children, we don’t care about this. We are. We play. We learn.

Why streak goals work

Two powerful motivators of behavior are loss aversion and consistency.

Loss aversion means we hate losing more than gaining. Loss leads to suffering. Suffering is bad.

Get rid of micro-stress

Today, I took a can of condensed air and dismantled my laptop. Clouds of dust flew in the air and dispersed as I cleaned it. After about 30 minutes, I successfully (!) turned it on and lo and behold, the noise of the fan was gone and the core temperature dropped considerably. That, I…

It’s probably not personal, don’t assume

You walk down the street and one person that passes you by frowns while looking at you.

How will you react? What will you think?

Useful technique to prevent you from being close-minded

I like self-help books, Tony Robbins, and meditation. Have you stopped reading? Have you concluded “oh, he’s one of those people”?