by uncannymind | Mind Development
Everyone knows the cliché. Wherever you go, there you are. It’s true and it’s useless, because it gives you nothing to work with and it dismisses something that’s genuinely valuable when used properly. Here’s a more accurate version....
by uncannymind | Mind Development
There’s a lot of advice on this and almost all of it collapses into one instruction: assume it’s you. Which is unhelpful in both directions. If it genuinely is you, “assume it’s you” doesn’t tell you which part, so...
by uncannymind | Mind Development
Think about yesterday and answer two questions. When were you actually sharp? There’ll be a window — probably two or three hours, possibly less. The period where the difficult thing would have been possible, where your judgement was good, where you could...
by uncannymind | Mind Development
Here’s a puzzle from the four-hundred-year-old material at the centre of this site, and it’s sharper than it first looks. A poor woman goes to a temple and gives two coins. It’s everything she has. The head of the temple performs the ceremony...
by uncannymind | Mind Development
The formula stopped clearing and nobody sent a notice. For twenty years, more effort produced more result. Reliably enough that you stopped thinking of it as a strategy — it was just how things worked. Put in more, get out more, repeat. You’re now putting...
by uncannymind | Mind Development
The standard reading is that resistance is malfunction. Something in you is working against your interests. You want the thing, some other part of you doesn’t, and the job is to overpower it — with discipline, or accountability, or a better system. That...
by uncannymind | Mind Development
Two people do the same thing on the same morning. One of them has a streak. He knows what day he’s on. He’s had to talk himself into it twice this week and he did, which he’s quietly pleased about. The other one just did it, the way you’d put...
by uncannymind | Mind Development
You’ve read them. Maybe not all of them, but enough to have noticed they say roughly the same four things. You could probably reconstruct the outline from memory. And you still said yes on Tuesday. The natural conclusion is that you’re failing to...
by uncannymind | Mind Development
You’ve had the experience where a conversation just works. Ten minutes in and you’re finishing each other’s points. They get the thing you were half-saying before you’d finished saying it. You leave thinking: that’s a sharp person....
by uncannymind | Mind Development
Read this part first. Persistent unexplained tiredness is a medical symptom before it’s anything else. Thyroid problems, anaemia, sleep apnoea, diabetes, depression, and a long list of other conditions present exactly this way, and several of them are...
