The 3 Mental Programs: How Your Mind Works

Unfortunately, your mind didn’t come with a user manual, even though it’s quite complicated. Here’s a simple framework for understanding how the mind works and how to train it.

Nondual Awareness: Science & Meditation Techniques

Many of the world's major mind training traditions, from Sufism to Buddhism, point toward nonduality. This article unpacks the meaning, science, and techniques of nondual meditation.

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The Screenome: A Key Measure of Digital Hygiene

Your screenome is a measure of how often you flit between different activities on your device: windows, apps, emails, etc. It has a substantial impact on your mental fitness.

Self-Stories: Fabrications of the Mind

The mind is a story-making machine. It concocts elaborate, often false and harmful, narratives to make sense of a complicated world.

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Stoicism: A Durable Mindset

The Stoics deeply understood our human condition, which has not fundamentally changed. Stoicism is a philosophy for training a better quality of mind.

Mental Dieting: A Low-Information Diet

Most people are inundated with distractions throughout the day. The Mental Diet is a direct remedy for this, producing more focus and joy.

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The Mechanics of Attention

Attention is a valuable and limited resource. By understanding how it works and gets trained, you can gain more conscious volition of this mental faculty.

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Virtual Tribes & the Loneliness Epidemic

When we lack quality social relationships, mental fitness suffers. So how can we form tighter bonds in a world of online connectivity?

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