Summary: As I promised to Greg last week, I read through six old articles on self-discipline by Steve Pavlina. Here's detailed comments on these, and how I think his ideas relate to my earlier post on methodical work as a habit. Note that I am not familiar with scientific research on the topic (...

Summary: Different goals, tasks or projects require varying degree of emotional engagement. Some are emotionally intense, while others are rather bland and light on our emotions. It helps to be aware of the load coming from those intense projects. Projects are emotionally intense when: situati...

Summary: a few words about my experience with meditation plus some resources about its long term effect on cognition and emotions. There are many types of meditation. This practice has a long history (counting in thousands of years) and is a part of several major religious traditions, such as Hi...