The Way to Be Great Is to Be Good, Repeatedly
“Your actions and results will not always reflect your intentions, but as you move towards ‘greatness,’ you should have a better idea of what inputs actually de...
Category: Self Improvement
The Definitive Guide to Writing a Blog Post
“If I could give people ONE writing tip it would be: Use the active voice! Seriously. The passive voice is just…lame. On the flipside, the active voice is crisp...
Seven Useful and Overlooked Skills Worth Developing
“The ability to recognize that your wins might not signal that you did anything right in the same way your losses might not signal you did anything wrong is vit...
How to Write like the Creator of James Bond
“There is only one recipe for a best seller and it is a very simple one. You have to get the reader to turn over the page.”
32 Life Lessons Learned from a 32-Year-Old
“You need a philosophy and you need to write it down. And re-write it and go over it regularly. Life is too hard (and too complicated) to try to wing it and exp...
Ignoring Your Long Term Goals Is the Best Way to Accomplish Them
It’s the only way to accomplish them.
The Best Way to Learn Something Is to Do It (And Vice Versa)
“If you want to learn marketing, do marketing. If you want to do marketing, it helps to learn marketing. That same symmetric property applies to just about ever...
How to Improve Your Next Visit to a Museum
“Challenge yourself to examine all the works in a particular space and decide which of the artworks you’d be willing to buy, which one you despise so much you’d...
How to Figure out What Actually Makes You Happy
“My aim was to make a list of 10 everyday things that really made me feel good, and 10 everyday things that really made me unhappy.”
How to Teach Kids They Don’t Have to Be Perfect
“Perfectionism is, at its core, an experience of not being ‘safe’ and wanting to have some amount of control so that we feel that we can keep ourselves safe.”