Arno's Blog

The benefit of being powerful is knowing you’re powerful.

Consider what you might want to learn from pursuing your goal.

What will you actually do to climb more confidently?

Approaching perfection as a process helps us learn.

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.

Don’t fight the rock; find a way to blend with it.

Are climbing and kayaking in any way alike?

Don’t get rid of stress; get better at working with it. 

Doing a thorough thinking/preparation process helps us convert unknowns into knowns, and helps us take appropriate risks.

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. 

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

Can you do tangible practices that hardwire your brain over time to be happy?

One of our biggest challenges in mental training comes when we’re progressing quickly.