Why You Should Start Your Next Brainstorm With An Embarrassing Story
“Candor led to greater creativity. Thus, we propose a new rule for brainstorming sessions: Tell a self-deprecating story before you start.”
Author: Josh Spector
Your Life Is A Reflection Of What You Think You Deserve
“The first step, then, to using your time in the best possible way, is to elevate what you believe you deserve. If you don’t believe you deserve to spend your t...
How To Stop Working So Much (And What I Learned From Doing So)
We know when we work too much—we just don’t know what to do about it. Whether we love or hate our job, it’s easy to become consumed by it and destroy our work-l...
What Happens To An Astronaut When They Come Back From Space
“I use the bathroom and shuffle back to bed, wondering what I should do. Normally if I woke up feeling like this, I would go to the emergency room. But no one a...
Read This Before You Quit Your Job
“There are ways to work at a job you don’t like without complaining every day. Try and seek the advantages and the lessons you can learn.”
To Raise An Empowered Girl, Encourage Her To Be Funny
“One of the things that happens to girls is that they are encroached upon by the world. And one of the things that humor can do is…help girls stand up for thems...
How The Shift From Search To Social Changed More Than Just The Internet
“You no longer enter the Internet the way you would a public library, where you browse and pick out what you want to read in peace, it’s more like the Las Vegas...
Why You Should Say No To The Wrong Money
“Most people are making the ‘wrong’ kind of money right now. The wrong money is any money earned while doing tasks that are irrelevant to your Big Goals.”
How To Find What You Don’t Know You’re Looking For
“I often don’t know what I’m looking for, and even if I do, what I actually find is more often than not better than what I set out to find.”
How Stores Trick You Into Buying Things
“People don’t know what anything is worth, so we need clues. But stores control the clues we see.”