
Arno's Blog


How We Approach Goals Matters
Consider what you might want to learn from pursuing your goal.

How to Climb Confidently
What will you actually do to climb more confidently?

How to Climb Perfectly Now
Approaching perfection as a process helps us learn.

What is the meaning of life?
We try to figure out and add meaning for being alive, which is natural and needed. In the end, though, that meaning is something we need to make sense of life.

Focus Nowhere To Focus Everywhere
Don’t fight the rock; find a way to blend with it.

What’s the Secret Sauce to Flow Performance?
Are climbing and kayaking in any way alike?

The Flow of Attention
Investigating mental training is so intriguing because, as we dig into it, subtle ways of understanding and using our attention are revealed.

How to Make Stress Your Friend
Don’t get rid of stress; get better at working with it.

The Importance of Doing a Thorough Thinking Process
Doing a thorough thinking/preparation process helps us convert unknowns into knowns, and helps us take appropriate risks.

Tools to Improve Your Focus and Concentration
How about some practical tools for improving your focus and concentration? How about one podcast episode that contains many of them? Enter Huberman Lab’s episode #88 on the Focus Toolkit.

Improvement Versus Enjoyment?
The problem isn’t choosing between improvement and enjoyment. It’s allowing ourselves to shift between stress and comfort.

Can You Hardwire Happiness in Your Brain?
Can you do tangible practices that hardwire your brain over time to be happy?

Slow Down to Speed Up
One of our biggest challenges in mental training comes when we’re progressing quickly.

Amor Fati (A Love of Fate)
You love what happens in your life, especially the events you tend to resist. Why would you want to love those?