Mindset

1. The Importance of Being Present

•  UpRiverGreg

TL;DR: Spending too much time thinking about the past or the future can distract you from what's actually happening in your life currently and can be detrimental to your health. Try to stay in the present moment as much as possible.

2. Methods to Understand Yourself Better

•  UpRiverMatt
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TL;DR: Knowing yourself is the first step to success, and tapping into the vast reservoir of wisdom and knowledge embedded in our unconscious mind through values, shadow work and dream analysis is very helpful on this journey.

3. Finding Sense in the World and Combating Nihilism

•  UpRiverMatt

TL;DR: We live in an age of nihilism left in the wake of our recent rejection of a God and religion. To find meaning in the world again through some form is a necessity, and being clear on what it is helps us to make sense of the world.

4. Savour, Absorb and Express Gratitude

•  UpRiverSpencer
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TL;DR: There exists a tool that can instantly reconfigure your neurochemistry. With practice, this tool can lead to a greater sense of emotional wellbeing as well as improved relationships with those around you and yourself. That tool is called gratefulness.

5. What is Meditation and How to Meditate

•  UpRiverGreg

TL;DR: Controlling your mind is the key to success in life. Meditation is training for your mind so that you may better control it.

6. Building & Breaking Habits

•  UpRiverSpencer

TL;DR: With methods and tools to control how your subconscious operates, and how to introduce good habits while eliminating the bad ones, we can better control what we produce, learn and accomplish.

7. Autosuggestion: How to Control Your Mind

•  UpRiverGreg

TL;DR: By continuously repeating an idea to yourself it will eventually reach the subconscious mind and begin to repeat automatically. This is known as autosuggestion and can be very effective in helping to achieve any and all goals.

8. Think For Yourself: How to Avoid Herd Mentality

•  UpRiverMatt

TL;DR: To control information overload and confusion, use the following critical thinking tools: systems theory, listening more than talking, the 16 logical fallacies, collecting trusted sources, and choice of language.

9. Overcoming Hardship Through Stoicism

•  UpRiverGreg

TL;DR: Life is inevitably going to be bad sometimes. You get to choose how to respond to it. Stoicism is an ancient philosophy that can help you to deal with the bad times, by teaching you to not to let them affect you.

10. Compounding Success With Delayed Gratification

•  UpRiverMatt

TL;DR: Look at everything as a long term game, and delay short term pleasure to invest in your long term satisfaction.

11. Build Resilience by Embracing Discomfort

•  UpRiverSpencer

TL;DR: If we train our minds to routinely embrace aversion, things that used to be hindered by procrastination become easier to achieve and require less and less internal convincing for their accomplishment.

12. Improvement By Subtraction: Get Better By Doing Less

•  UpRiverSpencer
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TL;DR: Too often, when people are looking to improve themselves, start businesses, develop a physique, improve relationships, and generally improve one’s health, we over-complicate. As people for the most part are optimistic about their future, they focus too greatly on the upsides of things yet neglect the downsides. It's time to stop adding, and start subtracting. Introducing, improvement by subtraction.

13. The Mosquito and The Elephant

•  UpRiverSpencer

TL;DR: On your journey Upriver, you will encounter many resistances; it is the ‘small’ and ‘insignificant’ issues that will truly lead to demise and thus we must orient our defenses to these instead of the ‘big’ issues.

14. Aim to Achieve, Not to Please

•  UpRiverMatt

TL;DR: Set time aside to decide on a goal you want to achieve whether it is big or small, and apply strategies to maintain your progress rather than allowing yourself to follow others.

15. Mastermind: How to Work Effectively with Others

•  UpRiverGreg

TL;DR: Multiple minds working harmoniously together towards a common goal form a “mastermind” which is more powerful than the sum of the individual minds which it is composed of. Form a mastermind group to achieve success in life.

16. How to Get Into Flow

•  UpRiverSpencer

TL;DR: Human beings are capable of entering a “flowstate” where they experience total concentration, immersion and it is generally marked by a loss of self-consciousness.