44 Movie Scenes That Influenced How I Live My Life
For the past nine years I’ve published a new blog post on my birthday reflecting on things I’ve learned about life or experiences that have shaped m...
Category: Self Improvement
Seven Ways to Get Better at Making Small Talk
“The fallback for a lot of people is like the newscast ‘hourly update’ — traffic, sports, weather and so on. Drill this into your head: It is a horrible icebrea...
How to Be More Ambitious
“Ambition is more likely to result once you’ve already put in some time and gotten good enough at something that you start to get better opportunities.”
Fred Rogers’ 1997 Lifetime Achievement Award Speech
“All of us have special ones who loved us into being. Would you just take, along with me, 10 seconds to think of the people who have helped you become who you a...
How to Know When It’s Time to Stop Researching and Make a Decision
“We think that rational decision-making means exhaustively enumerating our options, weighing each carefully, and then selecting the best. In practice, when the ...
Three Ways to Break out of a Busyness Loop
“Action addiction is an advanced sort of laziness. It keeps us busily occupied with tasks. The busier we keep ourselves, the more we avoid being confronted with...
A Knowledge Processing System for Creators
“PKM is a systems approach to dealing with the firehose of fragmented information that bombards our headspace daily. Processes that help to efficiently gather, ...
Great Art Doesn’t Have to Come out of Darkness
“I don’t believe that true creativeness comes out of misery and insanity.”
20 Things You Don’t Have To Do Tomorrow
Dear Overwhelmed, I feel your pain. We live in a stressful, pressure-packed, anxious time in which everything is judged and little ever seems to be enough for o...
100 Resources That Will Make You a Better Writer
“Books, Essays, Websites, Quotes, Lists, Advice, Movies . . . Whew.”