Mindfulness

The practice changes the practitioner. On training attention, processing stress and building presence.

Chapters

  1. How Meditation Eats Stress
  2. Revenge Bedtime Procrastination Isn’t About Sleep. Ask Hermès.
  3. Mental Toughness via Meditation
  4. The Optimization Trap That Broke My Meditation Habit
  5. The Downward Spiral of Oscar Wilde
  6. The 200-Million-Year Test for Any Habit
  7. Fifteen Years on One Wall. One Day Off the Business Week.
  8. 190,000 Taste Tests Said Yes. Customers Said No.
  9. 4 Things I’d Tell My Younger Self. One Changed Everything.
  10. Start Laughably Small
  11. Small Habits, Big Results: 47 Novels Before Work
  12. The Experiment That Changed My Mornings
  13. Consistent But No Progress? It’s the Hurdle Rate
  14. The Habit Range System
  15. Your Habits Are Only as Strong as Your Worst Day
  16. Habit Banking: What You Can Bank and What You Can’t
  17. Stop Raising Your Standards. Start Proving Them.
  18. How to Focus on One Thing All Day
  19. One Small Promise, Kept 108 Mornings in a Row
  20. Reps Reduce Anxiety
  21. Your Cold Shower Is an Exposure Therapy Rep
  22. I Got Everything I Wanted at 23 and Stopped Growing
  23. Cold Water Beats a Pep Talk
  24. You’re Not Overthinking. You’re Under-Moving.
  25. Why Polar Bears Pace and Rich Men Dive to the Titanic
  26. Ray Dalio’s 42-Year Daily Habit
  27. You Stopped Feeling It. It Didn’t Stop Working.
  28. 1 Metric for Life Progress: The Daily Tempo Score
  29. Think on Paper to Keep Your Principles Sharp
  30. Check If the Desire Is Yours
  31. Easy Choices, Hard Life