How to visualize like Michael Phelps before anything that matters In competitive weightlifting, you get three attempts per lift — three for the snatch, three for the clean and jerk. That’s it. There’s a hard ceiling on how many times you can practice the real thing, especially when it matters most. Your body can only handle so much. So visualization became a tool for me. A way to rehearse highly complex, high-stakes movements without putting more wear on the body. When you can only practice...

Habit Chess Newsletter There’s a system most people forget to build. It’s the system for when the system breaks. A lot of us spend time building habits and structures assuming we’ll just… keep going. That the system will keep functioning. That we’ll keep functioning. But the part that actually determines whether something survives is what happens after you stop following it. I’ve run into this so many times in my own life. I’ll download an app to keep me accountable. Meal prepping,...

Habit Chess Newsletter 3 highlights to think on today: Reading is timeless tech: “The irony is that we can still read a manuscript patiently copied over ten centuries ago, but we can no longer watch a video or see the contents of a disc recorded just in the last few years, unless we keep all our successive computers and recording equipment in rooms full of junk in our homes, like a museum of obsolescence. Let’s not forget that the book has been our ally for centuries in a war that is absent...