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How to Make Smarter Decisions by Designing Your Defaults

3 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Dastan

Default choices 90% of your daily decisions happen automatically, many shaped by your environment. Thus, most decisions are a habit, not a deliberate choice.To make smarter choices, design smarter defaults. And habits can be developed by shaping the...

You Are Not A Product Of Your Environment

2 Mar 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Moon Base MGTOW

(This is an old post, and I'm much further ahead in my diet. Stay tuned for newer updates.)  I can recall a lecture from Sadhguru where a student had asked for advice on maintaining his spiritual practice while being back home with his distracting f...

The Creature and the Cloak

2 Mar 2020 1 minute read 3 comments The BlackWolf

I want to revisit something that I said in the previous post. I found myself making reference to the Wizard of Oz and how his life has deteriorated due to the facade that he had to maintain for the Land of Oz. As I read over it, something jumped out...

The Mask

15 Feb 2020 5 minute read 0 comments The BlackWolf

There is some utility to wearing a mask. For one thing, no one knows where they might be able to strike you for maximum effectiveness. Another useful reason for the mask could also be that the world would never see your scars. Why wouldn't you want t...

Valentine's Day and the Loneliness

14 Feb 2020 5 minute read 0 comments Escalating Minds

  "‘Cause I’m broken when I’m openAnd I don’t feel like I am strong enough'Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesomeAnd I don't feel right when you're gone away"   Hello! On this day, we celebrate our love to our significant others through gifts, dinner da...

This is How to Feel Fulfilled: Advice From Abraham Maslow

12 Feb 2020 4 minute read 2 comments Dastan

Do you feel like you have more potential than you’re expressing? Like there’s this gap between who you are and who you could be? That can be a frustrating place to be. Luckily, one of the most prominent psychologists of all time studied this exact pr...

Living the Persona

11 Feb 2020 1 minute read 5 comments The BlackWolf

In my first post we discussed the importance of why the identity should be separated from the actions of the individual. I would like to take some time to understand the dangers of living a persona rather than our lives. What do I mean by, “live the...

7 Crucial Lessons People Often Learn Too Late in Life

29 Jan 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Dastan

1. If you want to "do what you love" you have to work three times as hard as anyone else.  2. Beneath anger is always fear.  3. Our everyday habits form our future selves 4. Your emotions take practice. You can practice humility, self awareness, as w...

Daily Affirmations

29 Jan 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Adamogz

Hey everyone - I try to keep up with doing daily affirmations in my personal life, so I've decided to add some daily affirmations, sometimes they'll be serious, other times for fun, and also a useful reminder some days when we may need one! I will fo...

Daily Affirmations

28 Jan 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Adamogz

Hey everyone - I try to keep up with doing daily affirmations in my personal life, so I've decided to add some daily affirmations, sometimes they'll be serious, other times for fun, and also a useful reminder some days when we may need one! My negati...