The Demon sounds like the Yeahbuts in Nicholas Lore’s excellent career-exploration book “The Pathfinder”.

Sounds to me like Taming Your Gremlin by Rick Carson (I have the 1983 edition, haven’t seen the revised one), which offers simple practical methods for performing the exorcism.

Excellent read. This also reminds me of the “Radio Station KFKD” chapter in Anne Lamott’s “Bird by Bird”. Julia Cameron calls it the “censor” in “The Artist’s Way”. Yay namedropping ;)

It would seem the author has removed the essay. Did anyone mirror it by any chance?

It’s cached on Google. Just search for:

“hack yourself” bloodletters

and it’ll be near the top.

In the last really kinda deep meditation/yoga class I took, the instructor described the ego as doing this among other awful things. It seemed strange that my own ego would be so negative — I like demon, censor, words like that. Well. I don’t like them. I like to use them…you know what I mean.

And Hack Yourself makes me think of Brenda Ueland, author of If You Want to Write. She talks about how your friends and family can often be the first to tell you that you’re not capable, can’t be who you want to be.

Going Public

I’ve just written about my start here on RunningMan at my regular weblog Fooworks.

I describe this as the 43 Folders blog for fitness rather than orgainzation.

Hack Yourself

My path to Hack Yourself led through several links. It started with the link on my Blog Roll to All the Pages are My Days. On his Blog Roll is the site for Ben Hammersley. He has a link for…

Hack Yourself, you can be happy

Michael Montoure’s web log, Bloodletters has published a reasonably ‘how-to’ on hacking yourself. Hack yourself — you can be happy. You can live the life you want to live. You can become the person you want to be; is an aggr