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Is Self-Improvement Really Self-Loathing?
Do we make ourselves miserable on the road to self-improvement? That question has been all over the place lately. But I'm not sure.
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The Secret Ingredient: Knowing Yourself
Xanadu. A mythical place of ideal beauty and majesty. Utopia. Whether we realize it or not, we are all searching for it. Metaphorically. Seeking that place or state or whatever where everything is perfect. Whatever perfect is. Guess what? We'll never find it. Xanadu doesn't exist.
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The Seduction of Rumination
We’ve all been there. A tense situation. Pointed words. A well-reasoned argument spilling out of our mouths. Our opponent defeated. Left aghast at the sagacity of our points, left with no other option but to accept that we bested them. And it was all in our heads. I
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My Personal Journey with High-Dose Creatine Supplementation
Real Life We've looked at how creatine works, both in the muscle and in the brain. We've reviewed studies showing its efficacy in helping with mental processing, memory, cognition, and possible prevention of dementia. This is all well and good. But what about real life? Well,
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Creatine in Your Body: What Does it Do?
So What does Creatine do? That's the question. How does it help? And why does that matter, even if you aren’t looking for benefits in the gym? It is so important to understand if you want to understand why I believe everyone (who doesn't have
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Understanding creatine monohydrate
This is a project I have been working on for some time now. The more I worked, the more I wrote, the longer it got. Up to the point it was almost 4,000 words. That’s too much, so I have decided to break this article up into a
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Reminders of my Why
Twenty years. That's how long it has been since I graduated from medical school. It blows my mind. In so many ways, I find it difficult to believe that so many years have passed. There are times when it feels like medical school was only yesterday. Moments of
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The Wrong Resource
We've all been told a lie. We've been told, likely our entire lives, that productivity is all about getting more done in the time we have. Maybe even in less time. Stephen Covey (The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and First Things First) and David
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Forcing Work
If you need to force yourself to work, you're working on the wrong thing. -Dan Koe: "The 80-Hour Myth" I'm just going to say it: this is bullshit. I honestly don't remember this article. But at some point, I saved this
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A Dusty and Dry Well
I am having one such season. And I don't know that I could tell anyone why. The truth is, lately at least, my creative well feels dry. Empty. I lower the bucket, the rope reaching its limit. I feel it hit the bottom, a hollow thud echoing back
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Replacing Resolutions with Themes
Linear goals breed competition and isolation. -Anne-Laure Le Cunff I've been forever scarred by the term "New Year's Resolutions." It’s true, I hate it. I hear the phrase, and I am instantly transported to cold Monday nights of my youth, gathered as
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The Myth of the Extraordinary Life
This week, I am skipping the Weekend Wrap and focusing on just one part of that. There hasn't been any new music, I'm playing the same games and reading the same books. But this quote, well, it demanded a little more than usual. “I’m so