1320: Wise People Have Rules For Themselves by David Cain of Raptitude on Personal Development & Self Discipline Habits

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🗓️ 23 July 2019

⏱️ 11 minutes

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David Cain of Raptitude shares why wise people have rules for themselves. Episode 1320: Wise People Have Rules For Themselves by David Cain of Raptitude on Personal Development & Self Discipline Habits David Cain is a writer and entrepreneur living in Winnipeg, Canada. On a particular boring day at his office job in 2009, he started Raptitude. His interest has always been human society and the internal human experience, and Raptitude became his megaphone for his thoughts about those things. It found an audience rather quickly and it’s been central to his life ever since. In 2013, he left his day job to write full time. The original post is located here: https://www.raptitude.com/2017/07/wise-people-have-rules-for-themselves/ Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 1320.
0:03.1	Wise people have rules for themselves by David Kane of Raptitude.com and I'm Justin Mollick.
0:09.4	This is the podcast where I act as a personal narrator for you for free.
0:13.6	I simply read to you, usually from blogs, sometimes from books,
0:17.3	always with permission from the authors and websites.
0:19.9	We actually have five shows where we do this for you.
0:22.0	You can find all of them by searching for Optimal Living Daily in any free podcast app.
0:27.2	For now, let's get right to it as we optimize your life.
0:34.5	Wise people have rules for themselves by David Kane of Raptitude.com.
0:40.8	Every time I post a new behavioral experiment or share a personal resolution of some kind,
0:45.8	I get a few emails telling me not to be so strict with myself.
0:49.6	They always say something like,
0:51.2	it's not good to be so hard on yourself or we shouldn't be forcing ourselves to do things.
0:56.4	This is a common thing to hear in our improvement focused culture.
0:59.5	I used to think it was a reasonable caution, but now I think it's generally bad advice.
1:05.2	It seems well-meaning in most cases.
1:07.8	People sometimes do go overboard with exercise, frugality, and personal efficiency.
1:13.0	But I think it's much more common for people to go underboard in some or all of those areas.
1:18.4	And you can bet the person giving you a hard time is one of them.
1:21.5	We often hear about the importance of balance in our self-improvement efforts.
1:25.7	But what exactly are we balancing?
1:27.5	Good behaviors and bad ones?
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