Daron Larson

Mindfulness Coach sharing practical ways to respond to the challenges of everyday life more effectively. Savor more, wrestle less, start now.

[Daron Larson @DaronLarson]

Mindful awareness isn't self-help. It's exercise.

We don't call physical exercise self-help.

Physical exercise develops physical capacities.

Mindful awareness develops attentional capacities.

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[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

Anxiety is also the gap between the talent you currently have and the talent you know you could have had with more self-discipline and self-respect.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

People don't struggle to find the right directions in life, they are just afraid of exploring paths that are deemed "a waste of time" by most people, where the best life scenarios are actually hidden.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

Kids will teach you that:

- you were wasting way too much time on things that never mattered

- you actually always find the energy to do what needs to be done when someone you love relies on you

- a lot of your anxiety and search for purpose actually came from having too much free time

- the most important traits in a spouse are actually joie de vivre, kindness, and composure

- your brain can actually change overnight, especially when it comes to the kind of person you thought you were

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

It's always the people who've never walked in your shoes who love to tell you how you could walk faster.

[Daron Larson @DaronLarson]

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[Jay Alto @theJayAlto]

you pity the moth confusing a lamp for the moon, yet here you are confusing a screen for the world

[James Clear @JamesClear]

A relevant section from Atomic Habits for anyone building a new habit this year:

People often think it's weird to get hyped about reading one page or meditating for one minute or making one sales call. But the point is not to do one thing. The point is to master the habit of showing up. The truth is, a habit must be established before it can be improved. If you can't learn the basic skill of showing up, then you have little hope of mastering the finer details. Instead of trying to engineer a perfect habit from the start, do the easy thing on a more consistent basis. You have to standardize before you can optimize.

[Daron Larson @DaronLarson]

@shreyas This has consistently been my experience throughout my working life. It’s also why I get so irritated by leadership experts on social media perpetuating blind spots about this dynamic. 🙏

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

No one has stronger opinions than someone who knows a little bit about something, that’s why tourists always have ideas to “fix” the countries they visit, that’s why amateurs love to criticize professionals, that’s why young people love to judge older people: the more you know, the more humble and nuanced you actually become.

[James Clear @JamesClear]

The ultimate form of preparation is not planning for a specific scenario, but a mindset that can handle uncertainty.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

It's tempting to believe that your struggles are due to your lack of intelligence or talent; when in the majority of cases, it's because of your lack of emotional control and self-discipline.

[Dan Go @CoachDanGo]

Getting in shape is a psychological process disguised as a physical one.

[Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco]

American politics today epitomizes dualistic, either/or, win/lose, us vs them, immature thinking. It's bad for individuals, our country, and the world.

We live in a world of nuance. Real issues are layered/complex. Sound bites and tribal loyalty won't get us where we need to go.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

Investing and fitness are very similar.

Everyone wants a short cut, the next thing, when really you just need to stay in a boring index fund for a long time.

Everyone wants the fancy workout, when you need the basics for a long time.

[Daron Larson @DaronLarson]

@BradWarner 🫡

[Gurwinder @G_S_Bhogal]

An absurd ideological belief is a form of tribal signalling. It signifies that one considers their ideology more important than truth, reason, sanity. To one's allies, this is an oath of unwavering loyalty. To one's enemies, it is a threat display.

[Daron Larson @DaronLarson]

@JamesClear “It doesn't matter if we know everything about building better mental health and fitness if our actions practice the same old unhelpful compulsions.”

@MarkFreeman

[Lisa Feldman Barrett @LFeldmanBarrett]

The most expensive tasks that brains do are (1) moving your body and (2) learning something new. They have a metabolic cost that may feel unpleasant.

So, feeling bad doesn't always mean that something bad happened. You might just be doing something really hard.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

Endurance sport is mental training.

You are alone in your head for long periods of time with ever increasing levels of discomfort. You have a concrete goal that half your mind is screaming to abandon.

You repeat this day after day and have no option but to figure it out.

[Brad Stulberg @BStulberg]

99.99 percent of life is the process.

[Daron Larson @DaronLarson]

@Oh_Behave_John I'm sure you can give me some compelling examples. We're talking about more than being calm. Deciding what to pay attention to, noticing the richness lurking in ordinary moments, and fighting less on the inside. These are a few of my favorite skills.

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[Daron Larson @DaronLarson]

Mindful awareness is so profoundly human that you don’t need anyone to teach you how to do it, but using it to develop empowering attention skills on your own can be tricky.