Mental limits, physical limits (Or: How I increased my maximum number of pushups by 33% overnight)
Summary: The brain is weird.
Psychology
Selective ignorance
Why you shouldn’t let me join your pub quiz team, but I’m a lot happier for it.
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My secret for building relationships with very busy people. Don’t use it for evil…
Don’t make it part of your identity
A whole decade ago, Paul Graham wrote an article called Keep Your Identity Small. I believe it’s one of the most important ideas that hardly anyone knows about. The idea is once you make something part of your identity, you’ll be strongly resistant to changing it. People can never have a fruitful argument about something