A calm mind makes better choices.
Chapters
- How Meditation Eats Stress
- Revenge Bedtime Procrastination Isn’t About Sleep. Ask Hermès.
- Mental Toughness via Meditation
- Minimum Effective Dose vs Maximum Tolerable Dose
- The Optimization Trap That Broke My Meditation Habit
- The Downward Spiral of Oscar Wilde
- The 200-Million-Year Test for Any Habit
- Fifteen Years on One Wall. One Day Off the Business Week.
- 190,000 Taste Tests Said Yes. Customers Said No.
- 4 Things I’d Tell My Younger Self. One Changed Everything.
- Start Laughably Small
- Small Habits, Big Results: 47 Novels Before Work
- The Experiment That Changed My Mornings
- Consistent But No Progress? It’s the Hurdle Rate
- The Habit Range System
- Your Habits Are Only as Strong as Your Worst Day
- Habit Banking: What You Can Bank and What You Can’t
- Stop Raising Your Standards. Start Proving Them.
- How to Focus on One Thing All Day
- The Power of Focus: What Early AI Models Taught Me
- Time Is Not Your Most Valuable Asset
- How to Do 2.5 Hours of Deep Work
- One Small Promise, Kept 108 Mornings in a Row
- Reps Reduce Anxiety
- Your Cold Shower Is an Exposure Therapy Rep
- Every Type of Courage Explained | Which One Do You Have?
- I Got Everything I Wanted at 23 and Stopped Growing
- Cold Water Beats a Pep Talk
- You’re Not Overthinking. You’re Under-Moving.
- Why Polar Bears Pace and Rich Men Dive to the Titanic
- Ray Dalio’s 42-Year Daily Habit
- You Stopped Feeling It. It Didn’t Stop Working.
- 1 Metric for Life Progress: The Daily Tempo Score
- Think on Paper to Keep Your Principles Sharp
- I Learned This the Hard Way: Write Down Your Rules
- Motivation Wears Off. Here’s What I Do Each Morning.
- Remind Yourself Who The F*ck You Are.
- Check If the Desire Is Yours
- Easy Choices, Hard Life