“If you want to learn marketing, do marketing. If you want to do marketing, it helps to learn marketing. That same symmetric property applies to just about everything we care about.”
The Best Way to Learn Something Is to Do It (And Vice Versa)
How to Improve Your Next Visit to a Museum
“Challenge yourself to examine all the works in a particular space and decide which of the artworks you’d be willing to buy, which one you despise so much you’d like to burn it, and which one you love so much you’d steal it.”
How to Figure out What Actually Makes You Happy
“My aim was to make a list of 10 everyday things that really made me feel good, and 10 everyday things that really made me unhappy.”
How to Teach Kids They Don’t Have to Be Perfect
“Perfectionism is, at its core, an experience of not being ‘safe’ and wanting to have some amount of control so that we feel that we can keep ourselves safe.”
5 Ideas For The Interested This Week
“A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.” — Edmond de Goncourt
My Most Productive Days Are a Result of These Five Choices
A simple framework to get your most important work done.
How to Get 10x More Value out of Every Book You Read
“What if you could read a book only once and extract value as though you had read it ten times?”
A Unique Way to Generate Your Best Ideas and Create Your Best Work
“What if you stopped thinking about your ideas as things you need to let out of you, but things you need to let in to you? Things you need to be ready to receive?”
Nine Phrases That Persuade People to Commit to Something
“The purpose of the list below, is not to help you move everyone to action. The purpose of the list below is to help you move the right people to action.”
This Is Not Another Diet
“Your weight is a natural by-product of how you construct your life.”