This week, I tried to throw myself deeper into the realm of personal development than before. Here are the main things Looking at the plurality of my accomplishments for this year, I feel satisfied. Very few of these were immediately accomplished, but instead were incremental changes as I worked towards broader goals. Deciding to writeContinue reading “The Slow Burn of Accomplishment”
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The Progressive Overloader’s Toolkit
When you’re looking to increase your physical fitness, you should see duration, intensity, and novelty as the main tools in your kit to improve performance from the gym. External factors like sleep, nutrition, hydration are also important, but these occur outside of the gym. If you’re trying to improve your performance in an exercise, theContinue reading “The Progressive Overloader’s Toolkit”
Delayed Strengthification
A topic I’ve been writing and thinking about is strengths: how to find them, why you should focus on them, and more. A slightly different angle to think about the concept of ‘strength’ for a given topic is in the context of cultivation. While you may naturally be above-average at something, to remain world classContinue reading “Delayed Strengthification”
SMART Strategies to Grow Motivation and DUMB ways to lose it
In the weeks following losing my job, I managed to complete a 6 month certification in 3 weeks, planned a move halfway across the country, wrote a blog post almost daily, applied for jobs, and studied for the GMAT. My friends were somewhat shocked that I was able to achieve while dealing with a stressfulContinue reading “SMART Strategies to Grow Motivation and DUMB ways to lose it”
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