Tag: weight loss
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You’re Either Make the World Closer to Your Ideal, or You’re Not
There are two things about categorical statements: all of them are wrong, but some of them are useful. And so at one level, I think this piece’s title is clearly wrong: some actions don’t quite make the world better or not, they just kind of happen. But that being said, it’s clarifying to realize that fundamentally […]
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Improving Self-Control with Control Points
I’ve lost almost 100 pounds in the last few years. Doing that has taught me a thing or two about self-control. One technique that I find really helpful with self-control is worth mentioning, I think of it as adding “control points.” One of the surest ways that you can get fat it to leave abundant […]
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Focusing on the Right Decisions
I’ve learned a lot of things in my life. One thing I’ve only recently realized I’ve learned is this: the truly consequential decisions our lives are exactly the ones we spend the least time worrying about. There are decisions we spend days and weeks obsessively pondering. Who should I marry? What job should I take? […]
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Personal Annual Report: In 2013 I was 27
I had an idea about half-way through last year that doing an annual review was a pretty good idea. I also had the idea that it would be nice to anchor it to my birthday which is at the end of January. Dates are mostly meaningless, but that one would be memorable to me and […]
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Moving Beyond the Psychology of Defeat
When I think back about how I’ve changed and who I used to be, a word that comes to mind is “defeated”. I lived most of my life as a lazy, overweight, and unmotivated student. There’s a lot of weighted meaning in that characterization, but all of those words are related in my mind to […]