Author Archives: Konrad

Write down your current daily routine. Identify how many pieces of it don’t currently happen. Break those apart into small achievable habits. For example, you might want to wake up at 7am. But you currently wake up at 8am. Instead of changing the whole hour right away, start by going from 8 to 7:45. Keep…More

The daily pursuit of reactive priorities satisfying, even exhilarating. It feels great to deal with requests that people send you. But then, years later you realize you never had a chance to actually look back and see which direction you were driving in. A monthly review is a great way to combat that. A monthly,…More

Not because of heritage and not because of the split in the United States between right and left. I’m a human globalist. Being an American would mean supporting the United States without reservation. It would mean promoting the interest of the US over the interests of other countries. Being an American is nationalism. Nationalism led…More

As a kid I used to always want to find the one action that would give me all the results that I needed. If I didn’t get results in a few weeks or even in a few days I would abandon my quest whatever it was. This led to many started but never finished projects.…More

It ignores the deep seeded trends against the establishment that are the root cause for Hillary’s defeat. What if there was a third way to do it? To convince the electoral college to pick a third party candidate (Bloomberg). This article lays out an interesting case: “1. get the Republican Electoral College to block Donald…More

One of the results of this past election is that we’re forced to face how different people’s goals are in different parts of the United States. These are differences that have always been there. Now, they’re coming to the surface as it becomes easier to communicate. Over time, this difference will average out. It remains…More

I’m confused by the left’s stance on this. I get that the goal of amnesty for immigrants currently in the country is because of a desire to be compassionate and avoid the pain (both political and real) of splitting up communities. But, why the opposition to stopping illegal immigration (e.g. “the wall”)? Is it: 1.…More

Now how do you build willpower over time? There are only two proven ways: 1. Meditation. “Meditation training improves a wide range of willpower skills, including attention, focus, stress management, impulse control and self-awareness. It changes both the function and structure of the brain to support self-control. For example, regular meditators have more gray matter…More

How to decrease the willpower cost of your goals. 1. Create habits. By definition habits are actions that are easier to take than not to take. We have a set of good and bad habits. The key is to add more and more good habits so that you don’t need to use any willpower to…More

You can’t just “try harder”. Its also misrepresented in popular culture. You have a limited amount of willpower in a given day. Tasks that are difficult will reduce your willpower afterwards. This has been demonstrated scientifically many times. A 1996 study found that “people who forced themselves to eat radishes instead of tempting chocolates subsequently…More