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- Ebooks
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Free ebook: Celebrate Your Beauty
Peer pressure, vanity and behavior, motivation tricks and hacks, success and pain, and how to excel, Celebrate Your Beauty -- whatever it takes.
- Productivity
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WOWOW: The Illusions Edition [Links of the Week]
Idleness, datamining, obsolete skills, illusions, autism, language, and keywords.WOWOW: The Con Artists Edition [Links of the Week]
Self-promotion, incubating projects, faster, better and easier; the ballsiest cons, and the worst one.WOWOW: The Artists Edition [Links of the Week]
Something for my beloved artists -- papercuts, teaching effectively, and procrastinating successfully.What is your Default Mode?
You're idle, in between projects or right after a show. You've just completed the big project. That is exactly where the potential to do something really stupid is the greatest.Reload Your (Abandoned) Resolutions
By now, most resolutions have been abandoned and life goes on. Let's see if we can reanimate one of them. One goal, three to-dos, and a trick, each day. Or... 1000 tasks and a gun to your head.The Key to Successful Collaborations
Imagine to have each and everyone only doing their best and interacting in exactly this one fashion.WOWOW: The Scissors Edition [Links of the Week]
The last links for this year. Just a glance and you're done. Time flies.WOWOW: The Kids Edition [Links of the Week]
Square watermelons, a bunch of nested lists, the what and the where, and something for the kids, from Steve Jobs and Bill Gates -- no, not the fisticuffs...WOWOW: The Social Media Edition [Links of the Week]
Sandy, branding, and protein tips, the best anabolic agent, fear, laziness and laser-like focus, and finally the blogging vs. social networking debate.WOWOW: The Fighting Unpopularity Edition [Links of the Week]
... somehow math-centric, with tips on subscribing, making money, latkes and the problem with becoming EX-WOW. Also, impressing your friends (hey!) and the art of taking notes.Why Don't You?
The difference between excellence and mediocrity.Hesitation: Do Anyway or Do Not?
There are two possible causes for hesitation.Play It Where It Lies
Do you think he plans it all out or just makes it up as he goes along?Opportunities in Strict vs. Loose Scheduling
Avoid using your schedule as an excuse to yourself.Make Time Stand Still
Take your time and make mine stand still for as long as it takes.Now, Seriously
Hack your life when the spirits are low and when the stakes are high.Developing Your Style
What does style have to do with insanity?Be Productive or The Law of Specificity
By the way, making productivity a habit is a great example of a concept devoid of any meaning at all.Develop in Public, Refine Later
Initial output is the key.Constrain Yourself, Your Time, and Your Tools
There's no correlation between creativity and equipment ownership. None. Zilch. Nada.WOWOW: Info-Fasting, Regaining Attention, and the 4-Hour Workweek
Information triaging is all the rage when it comes to optimizing your productivity.The News Diet: Less News = More Productivity
Try and temporarily avoid the news and see the difference it makes.The State of Flow and Becoming Addicted to Action
Action as in creation as well as in evolution.Single-Handling vs. Missed Opportunities
The high-speed, high-performance productivity concept of dealing with tasks, material or immaterial, on first sight, encounter, or touch.Assess and Improve Your Trends
There are only three general, observable directions for any given, measurable, progression.Focus Your Focus
Focus without persistence is useless.In Hindsight: The Perfect Time to Quit
When quitting is not just an option.The Pareto Principle vs. the Necessity of the Unnecessary
Comparison determines quality.Divide and Rule: Make Compound Interest Work For You
Creating wealth.How to Avoid Misunderstandings
Decrease the level of detail.How to Double Your Productivity with the Escalation Principle
Work in increments and never stop.Follow Your Excellence
Focus on your core skills.Improve Quality By Increasing Quantity
How intelligent use of quantity automatically improves quality.Instant Exercise: Reinvigorate Yourself
Design your personal stress-busting technique.How to Increase Productivity through Simulation Exercises
Drop the load, rehearse, perfectionize, and focus on proper form and apply the lessons learned at the office.Avoid First Impressions: The Uncertainty Principle
Your initial assumptions influence and dilute your results.The Way of Delivery: Separating Presentation from Content
It's not about what is delivered but about how it arrives.All or Nothing? What about Anything?
Kissing perfection goodbye.How to Successfully Use the Power of Delegation
The secret of smartly assigning responsibilities.Let Me Never Be Content
The big difference between the second before and the second after success.The Secret of Building a Strong Reputation
How to build your reputation with accurate estimates.How Your Mind Benefits from Cleaning Up Your Physical Workspace
No, you won't use any of it at some later time. Become even more productive after removing the reference material from Getting Things Done.Learn to Trust Your Inner Voice
Do not suppress your instincts even when they suggest taking a day off.Autopilot and the Advantages of Flying by Yourself
Beware of staying on autopilot for too long, you will miss opportunities.A Simple Technique to Experience Amazing Productivity Gains
Employ the power of intention.11 Ways to Improve Clarity and Start Getting Results
Organize your goals and set priorities.Matching Levels of Energy to the Tasks at Hand
Schedule your different tasks according to your specific levels of energy over the day. Worth trying.Resolve to Improve
Absolutely everything accumulates over time: why not focus on the positive stuff and start with the most simple thing.
- Business
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What is your Default Mode?
You're idle, in between projects or right after a show. You've just completed the big project. That is exactly where the potential to do something really stupid is the greatest.The Best In The World: What's the Point?
Immortality is a collateral of best-in-the-world. You are not going to care, though.The Key to Successful Collaborations
Imagine to have each and everyone only doing their best and interacting in exactly this one fashion.Integrate Life, The Renaissance Way
Creativity is a collateral of integrated, universal curiosity.Get Anything You Want by Allowing Mutual Blackmailability
Get to know your business partners beyond business and corporate structures, boundaries, and limitations. Share your weaknesses and you are going to share and enjoy your mutual sucesses even more.The Dilettante Way
Just do it and start to practice and gather invaluable experience instantly.Knowledge is King: How to Spot The Fake
Whenever someone appears or pretends to be in the know, think twice before giving him or her expert credit and credentials.Inside or Out?
The real magic happens inside, only inside.Spreading vs. Selling Ideas
Spread your idea, whatever it takes, and make money, no matter how, but do not confuse the two.Opportunities in Strict vs. Loose Scheduling
Avoid using your schedule as an excuse to yourself.Make Time Stand Still
Take your time and make mine stand still for as long as it takes.Polarize Your Peers
Offer them their own emotions.Be Yourself Without Making it an Excuse
I was just being myself is supposed to be a declaration of excellence and no excuse or explanation for mediocrity.Make it Personal
Since your idea will die from too clean an abstraction anyway, it will be worth that one last try.Pay What You Owe
You're going to pay, no matter what.Two Ways of Owning a Law
The surprising difference between accepting a law and breaking it.Uniqueness and Branding
The brand is built on top of uniqueness -- and not vice versa.Anti-Hero of the Day: The Constantly Whining Business Man
To stop complaining is a matter of honor.Develop in Public, Refine Later
Initial output is the key.Review: The Dip by Seth Godin
Never quit something with great long-term potential just because you can't deal with the stress of the moment.What do People Love About You?
I make you look good and you make yourself be seen. How about that?The Top 5 Reasons to Get Even Leaner
Why it is beneficial to get even leaner. Not lean instead of fat. Leaner instead of lean. Leaner than lean. This is about and for the already lean. Get more perfect.Defining Unknown Variables
Taking possession of the unknown.Assess and Improve Your Trends
There are only three general, observable directions for any given, measurable, progression.Why Rituals Equal Success
As a social outcast you're not going to be successful in business either.The Consulting Principle
It is the consulting principle which makes outside brains so effective and part-time lovers so irresistible.Follow Your Excellence
Focus on your core skills.Improve Quality By Increasing Quantity
How intelligent use of quantity automatically improves quality.Look Good and Fulfill the Expectations: It's What's Upfront that Counts
Are your looks congruent with your performance?The Way of Delivery: Separating Presentation from Content
It's not about what is delivered but about how it arrives.Mentors and Modeling: Learn Everything from Anyone
Use negative idols and avoid their mistakes.Zero-Based Thinking: Reconsider Negative Decisions
Apply zero-based thinking to the quitting itself.They Call You Crazy? You're on the Right Track
Remove yourself from everything average.How to Deal with Principles vs. Results
Stick to principles or focus on results?How to Successfully Use the Power of Delegation
The secret of smartly assigning responsibilities.Let Me Never Be Content
The big difference between the second before and the second after success.The Secret of Building a Strong Reputation
How to build your reputation with accurate estimates.
- Personal Brand Foundations
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Tales of Virtuosity: Excellence at its Best
It is obvious then that what may look like audacity to some is just the way it works. That, in fact, is humility.Knowledge is King: How to Spot The Fake
Whenever someone appears or pretends to be in the know, think twice before giving him or her expert credit and credentials.Polarize Your Peers
Offer them their own emotions.Be Yourself Without Making it an Excuse
I was just being myself is supposed to be a declaration of excellence and no excuse or explanation for mediocrity.Make it Personal
Since your idea will die from too clean an abstraction anyway, it will be worth that one last try.Two Ways of Owning a Law
The surprising difference between accepting a law and breaking it.Uniqueness and Branding
The brand is built on top of uniqueness -- and not vice versa.What do People Love About You?
I make you look good and you make yourself be seen. How about that?Why Rituals Equal Success
As a social outcast you're not going to be successful in business either.The Consulting Principle
It is the consulting principle which makes outside brains so effective and part-time lovers so irresistible.Follow Your Excellence
Focus on your core skills.Look Good and Fulfill the Expectations: It's What's Upfront that Counts
Are your looks congruent with your performance?The Way of Delivery: Separating Presentation from Content
It's not about what is delivered but about how it arrives.Mentors and Modeling: Learn Everything from Anyone
Use negative idols and avoid their mistakes.Zero-Based Thinking: Reconsider Negative Decisions
Apply zero-based thinking to the quitting itself.How to Deal with Principles vs. Results
Stick to principles or focus on results?How to Successfully Use the Power of Delegation
The secret of smartly assigning responsibilities.Let Me Never Be Content
The big difference between the second before and the second after success.The Secret of Building a Strong Reputation
How to build your reputation with accurate estimates.
- The Dark Side
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Opinionated? Hell Yeah!
It is not for everybody. While everybody is invited to try, some are here to stay. That is my opinion.Get Anything You Want by Allowing Mutual Blackmailability
Get to know your business partners beyond business and corporate structures, boundaries, and limitations. Share your weaknesses and you are going to share and enjoy your mutual sucesses even more.
- Fitness
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Are Your Goals Mutually Exclusive?
By trying to achieve all goals simultaneously, you will end up achieving nothing more than average, lowest common demoninator results.The 4 Minute-Workout: From Running Gag to Ego Buster
It's only four short minutes. Plus three days, that is.The Case for Supplements
Don't worry -- you already take nutrition supplements.Want to Lose Fat? Eat More and Get Lean
Dollars to doughnuts... you don't eat enough.Progressive Overload
Add more, adapt, then add some more. Repeat.Compulsories vs. Freestyle
At least acknowledge the rules...Meta-Commentary: Low-Carb Cravings and the Ancient Warrior
The best from both worlds.Urban Fitness: Rapid Stair Climbs
Living in an urban environment is no excuse for not being in great shape.How to Increase Productivity through Simulation Exercises
Drop the load, rehearse, perfectionize, and focus on proper form and apply the lessons learned at the office.They Call You Crazy? You're on the Right Track
Remove yourself from everything average.How to Use Doping to Enhance Your Experience
Adding foreign elements makes the difference.Resistance Training for the Mind?
The difference between mental and physical exercises.Excellence Beyond Competition
Being the best vs. being your best.Employ Your Instincts Against Overtraining and Burnout
Managers and athletes alike, you burn out because you're trying too hard.Understand Pain to Train More Efficiently
Choose your pain and reap the benefits.Reality Check: The Implications of Elite Training
Training vs. the real world. Why the best has to defend itself against "good".Exceptions Create Variety
Training the flexibility of discipline instead of working on its strength. In other words: Be human.Questions and Answers from the Editor
Everything you always ... but were afraid...Tracking and Evaluating Progress
Everything that can be measured can be improved.A Healthy Mind in a Healthy Body?
Don't we all know perfect bodies which don't care about their minds?The Wall Chair: Mental Toughness vs. Physical Endurance
Once it hurts it doesn't get any worse.
- Diet
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Cascading Diet Recommendations
Improving your health through your diet isn't an all-or-nothing game.Multiply Exercise and Nutrition to Look Even Better in 2008
It's not rocket science. You know what to do. You know what you should be doing.The Top 5 Reasons to Get Even Leaner
Why it is beneficial to get even leaner. Not lean instead of fat. Leaner instead of lean. Leaner than lean. This is about and for the already lean. Get more perfect.The Case for Supplements
Don't worry -- you already take nutrition supplements.Want to Lose Fat? Eat More and Get Lean
Dollars to doughnuts... you don't eat enough.Tagged: 5 Things You Didn't Know About Me
Alexander Becker is it...Cravings: Satisfy or Resist?
Indulging vs. replenishing, appetite vs. hunger.Veganism and Subjective Reality
Can a predator feel bliss?Ramadan: Evaluating One Month of Daytime Fasting
A unique opportunity for a spiritual as well as a nutritional experience.Meta-Commentary: Low-Carb Cravings and the Ancient Warrior
The best from both worlds.Reference: Dairy Products as Part of a Healthy Diet?
The implicit case.The Hunter-Gatherer Diet: Overview and Spiritual Implications
The eagle vs. the dove.Introducing Eggs
Optimizing diets.The Ramadan Fasting Diary
Daily accounts of my fasting experience.Fasting: Restraint Instead of Deprivation
Ramadan and the various aspects of fasting.The Secret Connection between Losing Fat and Eating Healthily
Resolve to become more healthy and drop the fat automatically.10 Diet Tips for Successful, Sustainable Fatloss and Long-Term Health Benefits
General dieting principles based on common -- yet often ignored -- sense.The WOW Diet: Going Vegan on the Warrior Diet
Vegan cooking and eating in cycles, includes a sample day.The Aficionado's Guide to Appreciation
The benefits of deliberate deprivation.Eat as Much as You Want: Experiences with the Warrior Diet
Fasting and eating for mind and body.Review: The Warrior Diet by Ori Hofmekler
About the warrior diet which is based on semi-fasting during the day and eating at night, as much as you want to eat. Interesting historical point made about hunters and warriors. Claim your predator instincts!Resolve to Improve
Absolutely everything accumulates over time: why not focus on the positive stuff and start with the most simple thing.The Transition from Eating Mindlessly to Eating Consciously
People who eat junk telling others about food.Tracking and Evaluating Progress
Everything that can be measured can be improved.Diets and Exceptions: One Day Off?
How come that cheating is part of the plan?
- Motivation
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Cascading Diet Recommendations
Improving your health through your diet isn't an all-or-nothing game.Intensity and Excess, Forever?
A series of nows instead of a extended then.Why Chutzpah?
Because it makes you think different.What is your Default Mode?
You're idle, in between projects or right after a show. You've just completed the big project. That is exactly where the potential to do something really stupid is the greatest.WOWOW: The Real Hacks Edition [Links of the Week]
Real hacks, not the kind you find filed and dug away under 50 more list-items to improve your shut-eye through extended boredom, so, sleep, progress, and how-to -- not.The Best In The World: What's the Point?
Immortality is a collateral of best-in-the-world. You are not going to care, though.WOWOW: The Observer Edition [Links of the Week]
Food or fuel? The universe and your own university, more resolutions and the observer question.WOWOW: The Inspiration Edition [Links of the Week]
High speed links: Inspiration and creativity, assholes (ooooh sorry -- not really), pirates, and chutzpah, again.Reload Your (Abandoned) Resolutions
By now, most resolutions have been abandoned and life goes on. Let's see if we can reanimate one of them. One goal, three to-dos, and a trick, each day. Or... 1000 tasks and a gun to your head.WOWOW: The Motion Mountain Edition [Links of the Week]
Renaissance, polymath questions of the week, music lessons, free content, and free links.WOWOW: The Death and Underachievement Edition [Links of the Week]
Underachieving and resolutions and social objects and modest change. Let's see where we end up.Happy New Year 2008
Two insights from 2007.Tales of Virtuosity: Excellence at its Best
It is obvious then that what may look like audacity to some is just the way it works. That, in fact, is humility.Opinionated? Hell Yeah!
It is not for everybody. While everybody is invited to try, some are here to stay. That is my opinion.Get Anything You Want by Allowing Mutual Blackmailability
Get to know your business partners beyond business and corporate structures, boundaries, and limitations. Share your weaknesses and you are going to share and enjoy your mutual sucesses even more.The Dilettante Way
Just do it and start to practice and gather invaluable experience instantly.Knowledge is King: How to Spot The Fake
Whenever someone appears or pretends to be in the know, think twice before giving him or her expert credit and credentials.Common Sense: Friend or Foe?
Don't let common sense replace education, instead replace common sense with original experience.Why Don't You?
The difference between excellence and mediocrity.Inside or Out?
The real magic happens inside, only inside.Spreading vs. Selling Ideas
Spread your idea, whatever it takes, and make money, no matter how, but do not confuse the two.Hesitation: Do Anyway or Do Not?
There are two possible causes for hesitation.Play It Where It Lies
Do you think he plans it all out or just makes it up as he goes along?Now, Seriously
Hack your life when the spirits are low and when the stakes are high.Developing Your Style
What does style have to do with insanity?Are Your Goals Mutually Exclusive?
By trying to achieve all goals simultaneously, you will end up achieving nothing more than average, lowest common demoninator results.Free ebook: Celebrate Your Beauty
Peer pressure, vanity and behavior, motivation tricks and hacks, success and pain, and how to excel, Celebrate Your Beauty -- whatever it takes.There Are No Misunderstandings
Something has changed and isn't -- yet -- communicated to everybody involved.Why Rituals Equal Success
As a social outcast you're not going to be successful in business either.The Consulting Principle
It is the consulting principle which makes outside brains so effective and part-time lovers so irresistible.Need Help? The Case Against Unsolicited Advice
The one rule to respect in order to successfully offer free help.Compulsories vs. Freestyle
At least acknowledge the rules...Subversion through Over-Compliance
Comply when complying is not an option.Perception without Judgement
Judgement evokes judgement and builds a reality on top of reality.Focus Your Focus
Focus without persistence is useless.Subjective Reality: Create an Atmosphere
Your creations develop a life of their own.In Hindsight: The Perfect Time to Quit
When quitting is not just an option.Benefit from the Magic of the Beautiful Morning
There is no time like dawn.The Pareto Principle vs. the Necessity of the Unnecessary
Comparison determines quality.Meta-Commentary: Low-Carb Cravings and the Ancient Warrior
The best from both worlds.Overcoming the Fear of Irregular Habits
Exceed your own demands.Your Success is Guaranteed
With determination, discipline, and persistance.Divide and Rule: Make Compound Interest Work For You
Creating wealth.How to Avoid Misunderstandings
Decrease the level of detail.Urban Fitness: Rapid Stair Climbs
Living in an urban environment is no excuse for not being in great shape.How to Double Your Productivity with the Escalation Principle
Work in increments and never stop.Deliberate Change: Whatever it Takes
The turmoil which precedes creation.The Ramadan Fasting Diary
Daily accounts of my fasting experience.The Secret Connection between Losing Fat and Eating Healthily
Resolve to become more healthy and drop the fat automatically.Subjective Reality: The Difference between Experience and Adventure
There is only one experience. Yours.Leap Forward and Benefit from Nonlinear Growth
Always expect more than others think is possible.Why Do You Hide?
Choose your universe and tell everybody about it.Acceptance vs. Resistance?
What are you really fighting against?Look Good and Fulfill the Expectations: It's What's Upfront that Counts
Are your looks congruent with your performance?Instant Exercise: Reinvigorate Yourself
Design your personal stress-busting technique.Mentors and Modeling: Learn Everything from Anyone
Use negative idols and avoid their mistakes.Zero-Based Thinking: Reconsider Negative Decisions
Apply zero-based thinking to the quitting itself.They Call You Crazy? You're on the Right Track
Remove yourself from everything average.Free Your Mind: Improvisation and Method Acting
Act and react spontaneously. You are no robot.How to Deal with Principles vs. Results
Stick to principles or focus on results?Excellence Beyond Competition
Being the best vs. being your best.Why You Should Assume Complete Responsibility for Your Goals
True fulfillment is your original vision manifested without alteration.Do You Fight Substitute Wars?
You procrastinate on your primary goal because the secondary one promises pleasure?Quick Motivation: You Live in Paradise
How many paradises do you think exist?Learn to Trust Your Inner Voice
Do not suppress your instincts even when they suggest taking a day off.Make Exclusive Decisions
To decide means to choose one in favor of the other.Positive Peer Pressure
Everybody is a role-model for everyone else.Why You Should Seek Inspiration Instead of Motivation
Inspiration is self-sustaining and specific while motivation is not.Willpower: Let Go of Everything
Control freaks, take note... you do not control anything.Succeed through Synchronizing Your Behavior
Optimize your performance in any area of life through simply being yourself, always.Reality Check: The Implications of Elite Training
Training vs. the real world. Why the best has to defend itself against "good".How to Motivate Yourself with One Word
Give your word to yourself and let your integrity take over the motivating part.Maintain Your Beauty
Be your own rolemodel.Resolve to Improve
Absolutely everything accumulates over time: why not focus on the positive stuff and start with the most simple thing.The Transition from Eating Mindlessly to Eating Consciously
People who eat junk telling others about food.I want you to be Happy, Healthy, and Beautiful
Become the best you can be. Become WOW.
- Beauty
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What do People Love About You?
I make you look good and you make yourself be seen. How about that?Free ebook: Celebrate Your Beauty
Peer pressure, vanity and behavior, motivation tricks and hacks, success and pain, and how to excel, Celebrate Your Beauty -- whatever it takes.Questioning Your Beauty
Overcoming insecurities.Strange Vanity: You Are Your Shades
A life on its own.Benefit from the Magic of the Beautiful Morning
There is no time like dawn.Look Good and Fulfill the Expectations: It's What's Upfront that Counts
Are your looks congruent with your performance?How to Use Doping to Enhance Your Experience
Adding foreign elements makes the difference.Maintain Your Beauty
Be your own rolemodel.
- Discipline
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Multiply Exercise and Nutrition to Look Even Better in 2008
It's not rocket science. You know what to do. You know what you should be doing.Reload Your (Abandoned) Resolutions
By now, most resolutions have been abandoned and life goes on. Let's see if we can reanimate one of them. One goal, three to-dos, and a trick, each day. Or... 1000 tasks and a gun to your head.Developing Your Style
What does style have to do with insanity?Are Your Goals Mutually Exclusive?
By trying to achieve all goals simultaneously, you will end up achieving nothing more than average, lowest common demoninator results.The News Diet: Less News = More Productivity
Try and temporarily avoid the news and see the difference it makes.The State of Flow and Becoming Addicted to Action
Action as in creation as well as in evolution.Cravings: Satisfy or Resist?
Indulging vs. replenishing, appetite vs. hunger.Focus Your Focus
Focus without persistence is useless.Ramadan: Evaluating One Month of Daytime Fasting
A unique opportunity for a spiritual as well as a nutritional experience.Overcoming the Fear of Irregular Habits
Exceed your own demands.The Ramadan Fasting Diary
Daily accounts of my fasting experience.Fasting: Restraint Instead of Deprivation
Ramadan and the various aspects of fasting.10 Diet Tips for Successful, Sustainable Fatloss and Long-Term Health Benefits
General dieting principles based on common -- yet often ignored -- sense.The WOW Diet: Going Vegan on the Warrior Diet
Vegan cooking and eating in cycles, includes a sample day.Why You Should Assume Complete Responsibility for Your Goals
True fulfillment is your original vision manifested without alteration.Do You Fight Substitute Wars?
You procrastinate on your primary goal because the secondary one promises pleasure?Let Me Never Be Content
The big difference between the second before and the second after success.The Aficionado's Guide to Appreciation
The benefits of deliberate deprivation.Eat as Much as You Want: Experiences with the Warrior Diet
Fasting and eating for mind and body.Make Exclusive Decisions
To decide means to choose one in favor of the other.Positive Peer Pressure
Everybody is a role-model for everyone else.Autopilot and the Advantages of Flying by Yourself
Beware of staying on autopilot for too long, you will miss opportunities.Employ Your Instincts Against Overtraining and Burnout
Managers and athletes alike, you burn out because you're trying too hard.Moderation in All Things?
Moderation on one side and excessive persistance where it really matters.Willpower: Let Go of Everything
Control freaks, take note... you do not control anything.A Simple Technique to Experience Amazing Productivity Gains
Employ the power of intention.11 Ways to Improve Clarity and Start Getting Results
Organize your goals and set priorities.Understand Pain to Train More Efficiently
Choose your pain and reap the benefits.Exceptions Create Variety
Training the flexibility of discipline instead of working on its strength. In other words: Be human.A Healthy Mind in a Healthy Body?
Don't we all know perfect bodies which don't care about their minds?Diets and Exceptions: One Day Off?
How come that cheating is part of the plan?The Wall Chair: Mental Toughness vs. Physical Endurance
Once it hurts it doesn't get any worse.
- Subjective Reality
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How to Change Circumstances
Once a certain reality appears right, pin it down by communicating it as widely as possible.How to Legally Apply The Rules of Con: Guy Ritchie's Revolver
You can only get smarter by playing a smarter opponent.There Are No Misunderstandings
Something has changed and isn't -- yet -- communicated to everybody involved.Questioning Your Beauty
Overcoming insecurities.Veganism and Subjective Reality
Can a predator feel bliss?Subjective Reality: Create an Atmosphere
Your creations develop a life of their own.Subjective Reality: The Onion Theory of Problem Solving
Treat your thoughts like the layers of an onion.Subjective Reality: The Difference between Experience and Adventure
There is only one experience. Yours.Why Do You Hide?
Choose your universe and tell everybody about it.Subjective Reality: Encounter Your Thoughts
What do you think is your environment made of?Subjective Reality: You Are My Bias
Experiencing consciousness.Subjective Reality: You Are Biased
Your bias defines you.Resistance Training for the Mind?
The difference between mental and physical exercises.Subjective Reality: How Desire Always Overrides Methods
Get rid of limiting beliefs and start receiving directly.A Simple Technique to Experience Amazing Productivity Gains
Employ the power of intention.
- Inspiration
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Intensity and Excess, Forever?
A series of nows instead of a extended then.Why Chutzpah?
Because it makes you think different.Tales of Virtuosity: Excellence at its Best
It is obvious then that what may look like audacity to some is just the way it works. That, in fact, is humility.Integrate Life, The Renaissance Way
Creativity is a collateral of integrated, universal curiosity.Common Sense: Friend or Foe?
Don't let common sense replace education, instead replace common sense with original experience.How to Change Circumstances
Once a certain reality appears right, pin it down by communicating it as widely as possible.Don't Ask Why: It's Overrated
How doesn't help either, try whether instead.How Context Creates Meaning
Within the right context, even the trivia and the truism become breaking news.How to Legally Apply The Rules of Con: Guy Ritchie's Revolver
You can only get smarter by playing a smarter opponent.Savor Your Moment
Replace self-consciousness with self-awareness within one moment.Question: What's the Difference between iTunes and Life?
We have the option to control every second of our listening experience, yet we, you, most of us, consciously opt for the delivery of a surprise.Defining Unknown Variables
Taking possession of the unknown.Just Do Something, Do Anything
Once you participate in life, it really works.Debriefing as a Tool for Mental Recovery
Reset your mind.The Secret to Think and Grow Rich
Somewhere as you read, the secret to which I refer will jump from the page and stand boldly before you, if you are ready for it! When it appears, you will recognize it.Resolutions: How to Kickstart the New Year
Discover and determine the single most important thing to take care of in 2007.Progressive Overload
Add more, adapt, then add some more. Repeat.Recommendations vs. Moving Targets
Experience evolves and so do recommendations.Enhance your Predictions
Once you master perception, predictions are easy and come for free.Perception without Judgement
Judgement evokes judgement and builds a reality on top of reality.Strange Vanity: You Are Your Shades
A life on its own.Benefit from the Magic of the Beautiful Morning
There is no time like dawn.Your Armorer
Developing and manufactoring your weapons.Repetition is a Form of Change
Doing something again does not work.Determine Your Abstract Skill
How do you express your purpose?Subjective Reality: The Onion Theory of Problem Solving
Treat your thoughts like the layers of an onion.Subjective Reality: The Difference between Experience and Adventure
There is only one experience. Yours.Leap Forward and Benefit from Nonlinear Growth
Always expect more than others think is possible.Why Do You Hide?
Choose your universe and tell everybody about it.The WOW Cult
Did you know? WOW is a cult.Subjective Reality: Encounter Your Thoughts
What do you think is your environment made of?Acceptance vs. Resistance?
What are you really fighting against?Subjective Reality: You Are My Bias
Experiencing consciousness.Subjective Reality: You Are Biased
Your bias defines you.Avoid First Impressions: The Uncertainty Principle
Your initial assumptions influence and dilute your results.Subjective Reality: How Desire Always Overrides Methods
Get rid of limiting beliefs and start receiving directly.All or Nothing? What about Anything?
Kissing perfection goodbye.Despair: A Shortcut to Bliss?
Behind the reasons for accepting despair.Moderation in All Things?
Moderation on one side and excessive persistance where it really matters.Why You Should Seek Inspiration Instead of Motivation
Inspiration is self-sustaining and specific while motivation is not.Question Everything You Believe In
Either you do know or you don't. Replace your beliefs with knowledge or drop them altogether.Always Question Everything You Do
It's not only about asking the questions but about taking action after receiving the answers.Remember Today
Make every moment special. You decide about the quality of your experience while you are around...A Healthy Mind in a Healthy Body?
Don't we all know perfect bodies which don't care about their minds?
- General
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WOWOW: Spring Cleaning, Donations, and a Discount for You
Busting typos, accepting donations, and arranging deals for you.Resolutions: How to Kickstart the New Year
Discover and determine the single most important thing to take care of in 2007.Tagged: 5 Things You Didn't Know About Me
Alexander Becker is it...Questions and Answers from the Editor
Everything you always ... but were afraid...I want you to be Happy, Healthy, and Beautiful
Become the best you can be. Become WOW.
- Ramadan
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Ramadan: Evaluating One Month of Daytime Fasting
A unique opportunity for a spiritual as well as a nutritional experience.Benefit from the Magic of the Beautiful Morning
There is no time like dawn.The Ramadan Fasting Diary
Daily accounts of my fasting experience.Fasting: Restraint Instead of Deprivation
Ramadan and the various aspects of fasting.
- Linking
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WOWOW: The Illusions Edition [Links of the Week]
Idleness, datamining, obsolete skills, illusions, autism, language, and keywords.WOWOW: The Con Artists Edition [Links of the Week]
Self-promotion, incubating projects, faster, better and easier; the ballsiest cons, and the worst one.WOWOW: The Artists Edition [Links of the Week]
Something for my beloved artists -- papercuts, teaching effectively, and procrastinating successfully.WOWOW: The Real Hacks Edition [Links of the Week]
Real hacks, not the kind you find filed and dug away under 50 more list-items to improve your shut-eye through extended boredom, so, sleep, progress, and how-to -- not.WOWOW: The Observer Edition [Links of the Week]
Food or fuel? The universe and your own university, more resolutions and the observer question.WOWOW: The Inspiration Edition [Links of the Week]
High speed links: Inspiration and creativity, assholes (ooooh sorry -- not really), pirates, and chutzpah, again.WOWOW: The Motion Mountain Edition [Links of the Week]
Renaissance, polymath questions of the week, music lessons, free content, and free links.WOWOW: The Death and Underachievement Edition [Links of the Week]
Underachieving and resolutions and social objects and modest change. Let's see where we end up.WOWOW: The Scissors Edition [Links of the Week]
The last links for this year. Just a glance and you're done. Time flies.WOWOW: The Kids Edition [Links of the Week]
Square watermelons, a bunch of nested lists, the what and the where, and something for the kids, from Steve Jobs and Bill Gates -- no, not the fisticuffs...WOWOW: The Social Media Edition [Links of the Week]
Sandy, branding, and protein tips, the best anabolic agent, fear, laziness and laser-like focus, and finally the blogging vs. social networking debate.WOWOW: The Fighting Unpopularity Edition [Links of the Week]
... somehow math-centric, with tips on subscribing, making money, latkes and the problem with becoming EX-WOW. Also, impressing your friends (hey!) and the art of taking notes.WOWOW: Info-Fasting, Regaining Attention, and the 4-Hour Workweek
Information triaging is all the rage when it comes to optimizing your productivity.WOWOW: Spring Cleaning, Donations, and a Discount for You
Busting typos, accepting donations, and arranging deals for you.WOWOW: Starred Sodium Lightbulbs
What have salt and lightbulbs in common and why should you care?Linking Park: 2007-W07, The More Suggestions Edition
Links of the Week: More networking, productivity, health and exercise suggestions, the whole enchilada.Linking Park: 2007-W06, The V-Day and Adventure Planning Edition
Links of the Week: Intelligence, metaexperiences and life according to its lists, Ho'oponopono, Valentines and chocolate.Linking Park: 2007-W05, The Flexible Schedule Edition
Links of the Week: Oatmeal and production issues, Almudena Cid and dancing like nobody's watching.Linking Park: 2007-W04, The Remarkable Minimalist Edition
Links of the Week: Remarkable because of what's up this week and minimalist because of the sheer number of links presented.Linking Park: 2007-W03, The Moody Edition
Links of the Week: Status and longevity, you're only human, how to stress and push your edge with yoga.Linking Park: 2007-W02
Links of the Week: The Wired edition, not the iPhone review. Dedicated to the science of human enhancement, anaerobic animals, doping, and the joy of a special ride.Linking Park: 2007-W01
Links of the Week: Improvements, food, dietary and body fat, scholars, research, incubations, and the respective Zeitgeist.Linking Park: 2006-W51
Links of the Week: Puzzles, you, disclaimers and reviews, trends and classics, layout and exercises that leave you all younger.Linking Park: 2006-W50
Links of the Week: A game of tag, tag, tag, ... nutrition and special experiences, finetuning your blog, training and some design for good measure.Linking Park: 2006-W49
Links of the Week: Balancing smarty pants, selling and tracking blog content, changing wrists, the future of books, simple simplicity and potential performance.Linking Park: 2006-W48
Links of the Week: Prevent yourself from cheating, sleep relaxed, learn the secret of coaching and discover the most amazing computer, ever.Linking Park: 2006-W47
Links of the Week: The tryptophan edition, including Happy Thanksgiving, grocery shopping, extreme upper body strength, christmas-proofing, and more Lego.Linking Park: 2006-W46
Links of the Week: Forecasts from the past and the future, Lego bricks and applied meditation, Polish traditions and the absolute edge, introducing speedflying through life.Linking Park: 2006-W45
Links of the Week: Interestingness and how to avoid the pitfalls thereof; beauty and the trap of retaining juvenile features; finally, your cuteness and five fights.Linking Park: 2006-W44
Links of the Week: Celebrating food; marbled or not, hormones and their uses, science as in labor and science as in chemistry.Linking Park: 2006-W43
Links of the Week: Creativity, concise and complex; corporate obsessions, Israelites, the predators bigger brains, skewed quotes and an open end.Linking Park: 2006-W42
Links of the Week: Measuring progress, why and how, also, gurus, non-gurus, Navy SEALs, and monks.Linking Park: 2006-W41
Links of the Week: Hunted and gathered stuff, from accumulated events, procrastination and its various cures over spicy testosterone to considerations about potential spiritual disadvantages of carnivores.Linking Park: 2006-W40
Links of the Week: From money to atomic bombs, geniuses, escalating principles, foreign words and the always popular subjective reality.Linking Park: 2006-W39
Links of the Week: A carnival with a special purpose, congrats, fasting, eating, fashion, and consciousness all in one stew, with onions.Linking Park: 2006-W38
Links of the Week: Playing hard without a Palm, alkaline Ratatouille with extra virgin olive oil, all in virtual, subjective reality, encountered in the streets.Linking Park: 2006-W37
Links of the Week: Steve Jobs, his reality distortion field and the magic of planning as an act of creation.Linking Park: 2006-W36
Links of the Week: Golden pages, passionate users, vegan deficiencies, and why I train at home.Linking Park: 2006-W35
Links of the Week: Education vs. quantum physics, anodized titanium, stone age tools and insanity.Linking Park: 2006-W34
Links of the Week: Testosterone, urban rangers and learning for life.Linking Park: 2006-W33
Links of the week: Fitness, beast skills that is, food, and the law of attraction.
- Review
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Review: The Dip by Seth Godin
Never quit something with great long-term potential just because you can't deal with the stress of the moment.How to Legally Apply The Rules of Con: Guy Ritchie's Revolver
You can only get smarter by playing a smarter opponent.The Secret to Think and Grow Rich
Somewhere as you read, the secret to which I refer will jump from the page and stand boldly before you, if you are ready for it! When it appears, you will recognize it.Review: The Warrior Diet by Ori Hofmekler
About the warrior diet which is based on semi-fasting during the day and eating at night, as much as you want to eat. Interesting historical point made about hunters and warriors. Claim your predator instincts!
- Technology
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Tracking and Evaluating Progress
Everything that can be measured can be improved.