Why You Should Never Label Yourself
“Give your identity a very small footprint. The fewer things you define yourself by, the fewer constraints you have on further growth.”
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The 5/25/150 Networking System
“The best networkers are givers. What the system does is force you to be a giver, and to do so in an extremely consistent way.”
How To Improve Your Day By Setting Anti-Goals
“A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.”
A 4-Step Formula To Generate Unique Ideas To Write About
“Combine ideas from your product with an idea from your general knowledge. Combining those two existing ideas results in creativity — a brand new idea.”
How To Deal With Failure Like J.K. Rowling
“The act of falling to the ground comes with a strange and unintended side-effect. Liberation. With nothing more to lose, we have a foundation and this foundati...
How To Get Excited About Topics That Bore You
“Most people need to go back and forth between focused and diffuse modes in order to learn a topic. When you can’t solve something in the first focus, you’re no...
How To Improve Your Life One Experiment At A Time
When we experiment, we improve. Just ask Facebook. The social juggernaut operates 10,000 different versions of its platform at all times to enable a constant st...
How to Improve Your Email Habits
“Making a behavior harder to do makes it less likely to occur. I looked for ways to make opening email more difficult. Surprisingly, I found just adding a few e...
How to Write Engaging Headlines
“Curiosity drives shares. But the trick is to find a way to spark that curiosity in every headline. It’s why headlines that start with ‘Here’s why…’ or ‘The one...
8 Ways To Get People To Pay Attention To Your Work
Attention isn’t free. To get attention for our creations, products, or messages, we have to give our time, effort, and resources. I’ve kept this in mind as I’ve...