How to Become Superhuman
Recovering Overthinker
To become superhuman, you must train your will by doing difficult things even when you don't want to. Strengthening your will helps you focus and use more of your mental and physical power. Small daily efforts build your inner strength and help you stay consistent in reaching your goals.
24 May 2026
their goals. It’s not that they don’t have the capacity for it. It’s that they operate with underdeveloped focus and intention. And their focus and intention are weak because they spend most of their lives curling the weight that’s far too light for them. What people need is the intellectual, creative, and even moral equivalent of a heavy weight that will force them to focus.
What I’m calling heavy weight is similar to the concept of “super-focus” by the Armenian mystic and philosopher, G. I. Gurdjieff. Gurdjieff believed people spend most of their lives “asleep.” Intense effort, both mental and physical, done for its own sake rather than for the external reward, was one of his main ways of getting people to “wake up.”
We need to find a way to attribute adequate importance and \ or excitement to tasks and activities that are not forcing us to focus like the greater challenges are. Which brings me to one thing all the mentioned thinkers, except Rollo May, left out of their discussion of a more intentional and focused life: the power of narrative. To be more precise, personal mythology.
What better and more potent way to tie excitement, sense of meaning, and importance to a task than to perceive it as an integral part of the story of your life, a necessary step on your journey?
How do we train the will?
Do things precisely because you don’t want to do them. That’s the simplest and most straightforward way of training the will.
microsucks can take two different forms. You can engage in spontaneous micro-sucks, as explained in the examples above. Here, your main task is to keep an eye out for the micro-suck opportunities.
Or, you can engage in pre-planned challenges. Stare at a dot on the wall for 5 minutes without looking away and with as little blinking as possible (great focus exercise as well). Buy a pack of matches, spill them all out, and then return the matches to the box one by one, with care, focus, and no rushing. Draw 50 circles on a piece of paper by investing maximum focus to draw every circle as precisely as possible.