How to make optimal decisions. — We have all done stuff we wish we hadn’t. Sometimes we carry around so much regret that it thwarts our efforts to make the situation better. Regret is like a large boulder tied around your ankles that prevents you from swimming afloat. They say the best way to solve a…

A counter-intuitive approach to living a good life — Imagine life as a game. A game with levels, where you have to accumulate a certain amount of points to go on to the next stage. In this game, you don’t control how many survival chances you get, that doesn’t depend on you. In this game you only win if…

How to have a clear perspective. — In any military unit there are soldiers and scouts. It’s the scouts that will go out and gather information about the enemy so that the soldiers can make a battle plan basing on that information. The scout or soldier mindset is a framework for how we process information or ideas…

These mental models will help you make wiser choices and take better actions. — When making decisions, our brains use predictions mainly based on past events, and sometimes on anticipated future events. But this way of decision making (baseless guesswork) is erroneous. Mental metals are systems of decision making formed basing on tested past experiences, and knowledge attained from others (mentors & books). …

Why we value immediate over long-term rewards. — Just as objects far away seem smaller, so do things far into our future. This is the case with hyperbolic discounting. The fact is usually that as you come closer to an object that looked so small from afar, you realize that it’s actually very big. We are inclined to…

The awesome twitter thread by JK Molina — This is a thread that I found very illuminating. I first read it while it was at about 200 likes, but it went on to be viral. I’m publishing it for the future (perhaps for my kids and grand kids, and for those that are not on twitter). …

The change you want on the outside must begin from the inside. — Most things that matter happen on the inside. Most of the struggling we face on the outside, or externally, is a reflection of what is happening on the inside. We are like computers, what you feed in is what you’ll get, hence the saying ‘garbage in, garbage out.’ I have…

I made mistakes and learnt some lessons. — This year is currently holding first place for the worst year of my adult life. However, it goes without saying that this is the year I have experienced the most emotional growth and maturity. Physically, nothing much has changed. They say it is through adversity that we learn the most…

Avoid the illusion of progress and get results. — Do you ever feel like you’re making progress, but in reality you seem to be going nowhere? One of the reasons for this is action faking. The term was coined by MJ DeMarco in his book ‘The Millionaire Fastlane’, where he summarizes the concept of being very busy but ineffective…