Category: Mind & Habits

Is Your Ego Limiting You?

Confidence and ego look identical from the outside. The difference shows up only when you are wrong....

Sit With Your Feelings

An emotion that is not felt is not gone. It is deferred, and it collects interest while it waits....

Why We Avoid Responsibility

Blame is fast, cheap and satisfying. It also quietly hands away the one thing that would let you fix the problem....

The Trap Of Dangerous Thoughts

Finding your own flaws is useful. Circling them for a fortnight is not. The difference between the two is easy to miss from the inside....

Fixed Versus Growth Thinking

Two beliefs about where ability comes from. They produce very different behaviour in front of something difficult....

Stop Being A People Pleaser

It looks like kindness and it usually is not. Kindness is a choice, and pleasing is a reflex to avoid discomfort....

Focus On Doing One Thing

Multitasking feels efficient and measures badly. What it mostly produces is fatigue and a day with nothing finished....

Removing Negative Thoughts

You cannot empty a mind on command. You can stop feeding what is already in there, which works better anyway....