The Purpose of Life Is Usefulness
“Happiness is merely a byproduct of usefulness.”
Category: Worth Knowing
Transcripts of Great Speeches You’ve Probably Never Heard
“You may see a few famous speeches on this list, but my guess is that most people are not aware of many of them — just as I wasn’t when I first started looking ...
Stress Plus Rest Equals Growth
“I encourage my clients to systematically challenge — to stress — themselves in the direction they want to grow. And then I ask them to follow those challenges ...
10 Principles for the Care and Feeding of Ideas
“Like eating, this is something that you do every day, not just once in a while. The whole process of capturing, curating, and sharing content is continuous, no...
Four Ways to Figure out If You Should Take a Job
“Always, always, always choose the people. The people you work with every day will be by far the biggest factor in your work happiness. This isn’t measured just...
Six Life Lessons from a Guy Who Has Charted His Life Every Week for 30+ Years
“A lot of the greatest things that moved the needle the highest involve either traveling somewhere new, or trying something new.”
How Gary Vaynerchuk Maximizes His Social Media Content
“The ultimate goal of creating this presentation on my content model is to show you how my team took one of my keynotes, repurposed it into 30+ pieces of conten...
It Only Takes 25% of a Group to Change the Group’s Opinion
“The knowledge that just 25 percent of a population can affect social change could be both encouraging and, well, slightly frightening. For social activists, th...
There Is No Right Decision
“Choices can be well reasoned or poorly reasoned. Their results can be surprisingly beneficial or surprisingly damaging. But there’s no such thing as a categori...
This Is What Happens When We Sleep
“The waking brain is optimized for collecting external stimuli, the sleeping brain for consolidating the information that’s been collected. At night, that is, w...