Self-Improvement Articles
Habits, mindset and Stoicism from the thinkers who shaped modern personal development
15 articles
James Clear: Key Ideas, Methods and How to Apply Them
A clear-eyed guide to James Clear and Atomic Habits: where habit stacking and the two minute rule came from, a seven-day practice, the documented criticism, and how he differs from BJ Fogg and Charles Duhigg.
Tony Robbins: Key Ideas, Methods and How to Apply Them
Tony Robbins built a seminar business on state change, limiting beliefs and the RPM planning method. What he teaches, his main books, one practice to try this week, and the documented criticism.
Brene Brown: Key Ideas, Methods and How to Apply Them
A clear guide to Brene Brown's work: her credentials, her definition of vulnerability, shame resilience theory, Daring Greatly, daring leadership, one practice to try this week, and the strongest criticisms of her approach.
Mel Robbins: Key Ideas, Methods and How to Apply Them
A factual guide to Mel Robbins: her legal and media background, how the 5 second rule and the Let Them theory work, a one-week practice, the evidence behind the mel robbins method, and the criticism.
Jay Shetty: Key Ideas, Methods and How to Apply Them
A clear-eyed guide to Jay Shetty: verifiable biography, the monk mindset, how he defines purpose and dharma, what Think Like a Monk teaches, a practice to run this week, and the documented criticism of his credentials.
Ryan Holiday: Key Ideas, Methods and How to Apply Them
A factual guide to Ryan Holiday, the writer behind The Obstacle Is the Way and The Daily Stoic: his background, what his modern Stoicism claims, a week of practices you can run, the criticism, and how he differs from Massimo Pigliucci.
Naval Ravikant: Key Ideas, Methods and How to Apply Them
A clear-eyed guide to Naval Ravikant: what specific knowledge and permissionless leverage actually mean, what the Naval Almanack is, a seven-day practice, the documented criticism, and how he differs from Tim Ferriss and Paul Graham.
Andrew Huberman: Key Ideas, Methods and How to Apply Them
A careful guide to Andrew Huberman: his real credentials, the huberman morning routine and sleep toolkit, what his dopamine claims rest on, a seven-day practice, the documented criticism, and how he differs from Peter Attia.
Viktor Frankl: Key Ideas, Methods and How to Apply Them
A factual guide to Viktor Frankl, the Viennese neurologist who founded logotherapy and wrote Man's Search for Meaning: his biography, clinical techniques, a week you can run, the documented criticism, and how he differs from Irvin Yalom.
Carol Dweck: Key Ideas, Methods and How to Apply Them
Carol Dweck is the Stanford psychologist behind growth mindset. What the fixed mindset research actually found, what the mindset book says, one practice to try this week, and the replication criticism.
Napoleon Hill: Key Ideas, Methods and How to Apply Them
Napoleon Hill wrote Think and Grow Rich in 1937. What he taught about definite chief aim, the mastermind and autosuggestion, a practice to try this week, and the evidence problems with his biography.
Stephen Covey: Key Ideas, Methods and How to Apply Them
A careful guide to Stephen Covey: his real credentials, the 7 habits of highly effective people explained in order, what circle of influence and begin with the end in mind actually ask of you, a seven-day practice, the documented criticism, and how he differs from Dale Carnegie and David Allen.
Marcus Aurelius: Key Ideas, Methods and How to Apply Them
A factual guide to Marcus Aurelius, the Roman emperor who kept the private notebooks published as Meditations: his life and sources, a plain Meditations summary, a week of practices drawn from the text, the criticism of his reign and his philosophy, and how he differs from Epictetus and Seneca.
Seneca: Key Ideas, Methods and How to Apply Them
A factual guide to Seneca, the Roman Stoic who wrote the Letters to Lucilius and On the Shortness of Life: his verified biography, what he taught about time and rehearsing loss, a week of practices, the criticism, and how he differs from Epictetus.
Epictetus: Key Ideas, Methods and How to Apply Them
Who Epictetus was, what the dichotomy of control actually claims, how the Enchiridion differs from the Discourses, a week-long practice you can run, and the serious objections to his approach.
