An exercise I've found to be useful is creating a timeline of my life (I've embedded the link to the template I use below). I organized the data using a spreadsheet, with one row for each month that I've been alive. I created columns to indicate when I reached major life milestones, experienced major losses, began important relationships, finished books that had a big impact on me, etc. I upd...

Here is a list of ideas that helped me have less fear of my own mortality. I hope that you find some of them useful if you're afraid of dying.You've been dead before: you already know what it's like to be dead (i.e., it feels like nothing, it's a total lack of any experiences). You were dead from the moment of the Big Bang (assuming that's when time started) until some time after your conception....

SMALL ACTS FOR STRANGERS Don't talk on the phone in small enclosed spaces (e.g., crowded elevators or small waiting rooms). If you're on the phone and heading towards an elevator with lots of people in it, tell the person you will call them right back. Don't use your phone during the process of ordering at a coffee shop or restaurant; it's very annoying for staff to be half ignored during y...

I don't usually advocate for worrying more. Quite the opposite, in fact, but there are at least a handful of personal dangers to your happiness and life that you may be overlooking. Specifically, the below list of things that may be worth worrying about more because they: (a) could be more likely to impact you than you realize (b) could have severe consequences if they do affect you ...

Pseudo work (PW) is a problem. Pseudo work consists of tasks that feel productive but neither contribute to your goals nor help anyone else to any meaningful degree. PW (pseudo work) is neither fun nor useful but, because it feels like work, we allow ourselves to do it and consider it work time. That means we may not even have it on our radar as something to get rid of (unlike pure procrastinatio...

Here is a list of ideas for wild and wacky restaurants that I hope someone will create someday. Note: If you're a creator of wacky-concept restaurants, feel free to steal these ideas, just please invite me to the opening! No Spoons (a.k.a. Soup Flight)The entire menu always consists of 30 soups (most hot, some cold, most savory, a few sweet, most classic, a few experimental). They are only ...

Watch as your mind is thoroughly broken by these easy to state probability questions. intuiting probabilities = too hard for us mortals Problem 1 - That Tuesday Boy Is Your Bane Ajax has exactly two children. For no reason, in particular, you decide to ask Ajax, "is at least one of your children a male that was born on a Tuesday?" and he truthfully replies, "yes". Given this information ...

A list of simple ways you can be a better friend to the people you care about most (including close friends, family members, and romantic partners): INTERACTION - Avoid devices: don't use your phone when with your friends - Give focus: try to focus fully and completely on what your friend is telling you and, if you are momentarily distracted, return your full focus to your friend as soo...

Consider this list of useful methods I aspire to use when organizing, optimizing, and decluttering my home and workspaces: DISCARDING Consider true replacement cost: if an item is rarely used, will never be needed urgently, and is not hard to get (i.e., you can easily order it online or go get it at a store if you ever need it) then the true replacement cost is the probability that you'll n...

Right after you get back from a trip or action-packed vacation, I highly recommend the following: think through each day of the trip, one by one, and write a list of all the things you did. Visualizing each activity as you write it down. To ensure more detail, you can also do this at the end of each day of the trip, rather than waiting until the end. This will greatly improve your memory of yo...