For the last two days, I have been in a slump. And I know what started it. Beer. On Sunday, I could have rested. Instead, I went out and had beer. That disrupted my recovery. Chilled beer gave me a cold. I took cold medicine. The medicine made me drowsy. This morning, I was practically…
Ben Wilson’s cancer diagnosis brought back an old podcast, an old version of myself, and an uncomfortable thought about ambition and mortality. Ben Wilson, the creator of How to Take Over the World, has cancer. I learned about it through My First Million. Normally, news like this about someone I don’t personally know would not affect me…
I have written through many of my old thoughts. Perhaps the next phase is not about writing more, but living, learning and giving new ideas time to emerge. Something unusual has happened to my writing. I don’t feel an impulse to write. Usually, my mind is bubbling with some idea. I keep thinking about it,…
Treating failure as feedback, behaviour change as iteration, and life as an experiment BAF — my Behaviour Architecture Framework — is slowly becoming more than something I use for my health project. It is becoming an approach to life. And for some reason, I am truly enjoying it. The biggest change is simple: I have removed…
You can explore my full 6 pack project here. I Know What to Do, So Why Don’t I Do It? I barely remember the book now. But the question stayed somewhere in my head. These days, I am becoming obsessed with it. I sometimes find it more fascinating than the philosophical question, Does God exist? Because…
Also available one – 6 Pack Project So finally, I am revealing the framework I am using to improve my health. Suspense music, please. The idea is essentially a combination of the Lean Startup framework applied to Atomic Habits. I call it the Behaviour Architecture Framework — BAF. I have always been interested in behavioural psychology, particularly…
I have spent 11 years in a bank. For almost seven of those years, I managed to blame the bank for a significant part of my dissatisfaction. My underlying assumption was simple: I know better. The institution and the people running it are stupid. State Bank has existed in some form for more than 200…
I Am Learning to Look at the Data For a long time, I operated primarily through intuition. I would decide how something should work and then try to force reality to comply. Morning workouts are a good example. For years, I wanted to be the person who started working out exactly when the gym opened at 5:30…
How to deal with nice guy syndrome in High Expectation environment? Over the last two days, I noticed the same mistake happening three times. Three different situations. Three different tasks. But my behaviour was almost identical. And that repetition made me realise that I may have discovered another internal resistance that I need to work…
As I reach the end of my Final Sprint, I am thinking about the opportunities I lost this week. One thing has become very clear: time was not the real constraint. If I missed my workout in the morning, the evening was still available. Knowledge was not the constraint either. I knew what I had to…