Willpower is built through brute repetition—partially.  It’s also built by closing those comforting background programs that are always draining it.  Everyone knows about the willpower upgrades attained through discipline and hard work, but IMHO, to tap the purest store of willpower, we need to mentally defragment ourselves and engage in a psychic cleanup of useless viewpoints/processes.

I can be cultish by INTRODUCING ambiguity (energy/entities/magic), I can be scientifically cynical by DISREGARDING ambiguity (everything must meet a burden of evidence), or I can be spiritual by ACCEPTING ambiguity (being able to function as if a premise is true, but upon seeing contrary evidence, be fluid enough to instantly change my opinion).  I…

My philosophical expressions are only things that I’d like someone else to say to me—whether it be “me” right now, or a past version of myself.  In order to pull this off, however, I have to do my best to actively LIVE this stuff.   F*ck the talk, hail the Walk.

Common platitude:  “Skills take 10,000 hours to master.”  So that means with above average dedication (1 hour per day, no days off), that’s 27.397 years to master ONE SKILL.  That is WAY too long.  BUT:  I believe that within all skills, there exists a core group of abilities—discipline, creative problem solving, fluid analysis (accepting the possibility…

To power your way to dreams/achievement/etc., you can use whatever fuel you want: anger, love, duty, futility, obsession, positivity…Some fuels, though, will leave residue, and eventually become toxic.   (The cleanest burning ones, IMHO, are discipline and clarity.)

Rules of Writing Fiction, IMHO (in order of importance):  1.  Reader must be [entertained/uplifted/sad/furious/FEEL SOMETHING].  2.  Reader must understand what is happening.   Everything else—and that includes grammar, punctuation, etc. etc—is a supporting element.  You can take them or leave them according to how well they serve Rules 1 and 2.