What You Had to Do to Hang out with Ben Franklin
At 21-years-old, Benjamin Franklin created an interesting way to spend his Friday evenings. In 1727, he gathered together a group of people— printers, surveyors...
Category: Self Improvement
Not All Free Time Is Created Equal
“It’s not just that we face a shortage of free time; it’s also that our free time, in order to be satisfying, often must align with that of our friends and love...
How to Generate Good Ideas
“Learn to pay attention to what you pay attention to. It’s so easy to dismiss it. You have to train yourself to grab onto those things and not let go.”
How Dice Clay Influenced Chris Rock
“When you’re behind the curtain and you’re about to walk out I want you to remember what I told you — every comic wants you to fail. And then you use your other...
Everything Is Pro Wrestling
“The audiences and the creators labor alongside each other, building from both ends, to conceive a universe with its own logic: invented worlds that, however fa...
The Only Book I’ve Ever Read in One Sitting
“Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.”
What It’s like to Be a 13-Year-Old Girl Right Now
“Some of Katherine’s very best friends have never been to her house, or she to theirs.”
If This Doesn’t Inspire You to Do Something, Nothing Will
“Learn how to love losing.”
Sales People Need To Be Stopped
Dear Sales People, I’m tired of being sold. Whether you call my office, flood my inbox, accost me when I enter your store, or plead with me to supersize my orde...
Stop Listening To People
Everybody’s got something to say about what you do. People you know, people you love, people you hate. Even people you’ve never met in posts like this one. They...