For the last ten months, I’ve been experimenting with workout and diet to try to chisel out six abdominal muscles that I could then photograph and you could then admire. I’d put it on the Instagram and watch the little red hearts patter in. 52 likes! That’s a record! This is happiness, right? To that… Read More: Talk to your body »
Do you see the world as a prison or a playground? If you answered prison, I have a book for you to check out. Michael Pollan just explored the history and the science and the experience of using certain chemicals found in mushrooms and ergot to reset your brain. Go read it. I’ll wait. It’s called How to Change… Read More: How to Change Your Mind »
I would rather be lucky than good. Luckily, Richard Wiseman wrote a book telling me how to grow luckier. The author breaks luck down into four principles to consider when increasing your luck. I’ve explained his takeaways and interpreted with my own jive. Principle One: Maximize your chance opportunities There are three aspects to a person’s… Read More: How to be luckier »
I know it seems like I’m talking to you, but I’m really just a narcissistic lunatic writing to herself. I’m trying to help my future self navigate. I write because that’s how I process the world. I’m reviewing and theorizing about what works and what doesn’t work for me, reporting my events and taking notes… Read More: Why I write »
I’m just over eight months into my Year of the Body experiment, the project where I try to put my body’s interests first and foremost for a year. A few months into my research and, in particular, my exercising, I began to understand something called the muscle mind connection. And now that I do understand it, I… Read More: A new secret of life: the muscle mind connection »
Have you read the Book of Joy yet? I read it several months ago, but my mind keeps wandering back to it, specifically a story about a wise farmer. Our farmer’s horse runs away. His horse! He loved that thing. It was how he made his living. Farmer’s neighbor comes over to lament. Farmer’s neighbor:… Read More: Who’s to say what’s good or bad? »
It’s time to remind you that I really don’t have any idea what I’m doing. I’m winging it and I often wonder if I’m wrong about everything. The retirement life I dreamt up when I started my retirement chart was pretty specific. I wanted enough money to slow travel. I wanted to cross off the number… Read More: What if I’m wrong about everything? »
I have a giant, subcontinent-sized crush on this place called India. When I told India this, India told me we should just be friends. A couple of weeks later, India hinted that one could never have too many acquaintances. A few days after that, I heard India wanted to humiliate me in an arm-wrestling competition. Observation… Read More: Observations from India »
Have you read Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project? In it, she talks about how she uses a resolutions chart to basically grade herself on life. You are what you repeatedly do. Are the character traits you hope people will use at your funeral the ones you’re emulating on a regular basis? I’ve kept a resolutions… Read More: The most valuable habit I ever adopted »
Too long; Didn’t read summary Eat Eggs and avocados for first meal Spinach, whole milk or heavy cream, and frozen berries in smoothie form, for second meal Lots of vegetables and some sort of beans for final meal Avoid Sugar Grains Misc Aim to keep your body in a fasted state for 16 hours each… Read More: What I eat (ideally, most of the time, perhaps) »