Lie still in bed
<p><pre><code>    Just like you can practice going to sleep at a 
    reasonable hour, so can you practice keeping 
    your bed made, liking a particular food, or 
    doing collage.
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This is so true and so powerful. People in general really underestimate how &quot;hackable&quot; their brains and habits are.<p>It&#x27;s probably the single biggest fixable difference I see between people who are successful and happy and those who aren&#x27;t.<p>I think the general HN demographic is perhaps more inclined to recognize this than the general population. Not that the hacker community has a monopoly on it by any means. Athletes, successful executives, etc. They know it too.<p>Edit: I want to be extremely clear. I am talking about a mindset of self-improvement.  It is not a magic cure for anything. I am not telling you that you can just magically &quot;mind hack&quot; problems away.<p>I recognize that there is a fine line to walk here. There are a lot of people who think that your depression or your ADHD or your <i>whatever</i> is a result of you simply not trying hard enough or not finding the right &quot;hack.&quot; Those people are wrong, and that attitude is misguided and hurtful.<p>In my experience happiness and success is the result of finding a happy middle ground between (a) learned helplessness (b) a toxic and delusional belief in magical positive thinking. You should believe that you can continually hone your skills and habits. You should not  take that sort of attitude to a toxic extreme, and you certainly should not use it as a tool to hurt and judge others.