by uncannymind | Mind Development
Think of something you’re not doing. Not a goal you haven’t started — that’s a different problem. Something you’ve decided against, or postponed indefinitely, because of a specific obstacle. Now answer one question about that obstacle: Who...
by uncannymind | Mind Development
Four companies. Different industries, maybe. Certainly different people, different management, different cultures. One of them you left on excellent terms and one of them you left badly. And somewhere between month eight and month fourteen at each of them, the same...
by uncannymind | Mind Development
Somebody has said it to you. You were describing a real problem — a genuine, structural, load-bearing problem — and partway through you got the head tilt and the sentence. Try to stay positive. And something in you went flat, because you knew instantly that the...
by uncannymind | Mind Development
Try it now. Bring the goal to mind. The big one, the one that’s been sitting there. Hold it in your attention for ten seconds without immediately doing something else. Notice what happens, and notice how fast. There’s a weight. Something in the chest or...
by uncannymind | Mind Development
Ask around and you’ll get the same number. Not twenty-one days exactly, and not because anyone’s read the same article. Just — a few weeks. Two and a bit. Three. Somewhere in there, the thing stops. It happens across completely unrelated domains. Gym...
