Everyone knows that added sugar isn’t healthy. Nobody says to add more soda to your diet, or that it might be a good idea to put Domino’s cubes in your smoothie. And the consensus science backs this up. If you look at the reviews or meta-analyses (studies of studies), they converge on a simple piece of advice: eat as little … Read More
There’s No Such Thing As Momentum (But There’s This)
The most crushing defeat happened to my Baltimore Ravens against the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 2011 NFL playoffs. In sports, losing sucks, but it sucks even more when you think you’re going to win. When you should have won. You were up the entire game, but then something happened, it started slipping away, and what was once a huge lead … Read More
Three Surprising Facts About People With High Willpower
[Reading Time: About 9 minutes, or less time than it takes the average woman to apply her makeup] 1. It’s Not The Size of Your Willpower, It’s How You Use it Self-control is, like, 50% funny and 50% sad. We sit in front of a plate of cookies and we just cannot stop ourselves. Cannot do it. The smell of … Read More
Video: Which Foods Are Healthy & How To Get Yourself to Eat Them (And Keep Eating Them. Consistently. Forever)
In January 2021, I gave the following talk for a group of people at Vector Media. The talk presents a three-part framework on the way to becoming what I call, “foodwise.” That is, having (1) the ability to understand which foods are actually healthy, (2) how to actually get yourself to do it, and then, (3) how to become the … Read More
My Meat Experiment Results: Before and After Blood Report From a Plant-Eater Turned Carnivore
What happens when a vegan adds back meat for over two months? Bad blood…
How To Get Full On Less Food
Reading Time: ~4 minutes (or less time than it takes to boil an egg, if you know how…) “We are always looking at the things around us in relation to others.” The Situation Growing up, one of the dietary staples for my brother and me was eating bowls of cereal. Pretty typical. But the problem was that, from ages 8-22, … Read More
How To Get 10% Smarter in 15 Minutes
Reading time: ~5 minutes (or less time than it takes to find your keys) Summary: Walking or biking to your job might actually make you better at it. Imagine in less than an hour you have a huge meeting, or exam or, if you’re particularly troubled, a stand-up comedy set. The venue is 20 minutes away. This thing is huge, … Read More
How Color Can Trick You Into Health
The salad is not only healthier if it is more colorful; the color variety attracts you to eat more of it
How To Prevent Overeating Healthy Foods (i.e. Ferriss’s ‘Domino Foods’)
When it comes to eating healthy food, can you eat too much of a good thing? If so, how can you limit this ‘Domino Effect?’
Using Obstacles To Your Advantage
S “Even the most hardworking among us are, on some level, pretty lazy. At the very least, we are constantly assessing situations for the path of least resistance—or, to put it another way, the path with the fewest obstacles.” Dr. Traci Mann, Secrets from The Eating Lab [Download the free e-book here with all seven Tweaks] The Situation … Read More
