Five Books Bill Gates Recommends You Read This Summer
“I never got to tell Hans how much I liked his book, but the world would be better if millions of people read it.”
Category: Self Improvement
10 Things You Don’t Know About Yourself
“People’s own theories about who they are influence how they behave. One’s self-image can therefore easily become a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
How to Master Time Scarcity
“True mastery of the time scarcity demon only really comes from a mindset shift. We have to address the feeling rather than figure out the logistics of it all. ...
Why Artists Are No Longer Criticized for Selling Out
“I haven’t heard about anyone selling out in a long while. Sometime between 2008 and 2018, capitalizing on your success as an artist to build a skate brand went...
Seven Ways Being Alone Changes Your Brain
“Being alone a lot has been shown to increase everything from muscle tension to immune system issues — but it’s feeling alone, rather than actually being isolat...
How to Reframe Your Nervousness as Excitement
“The reason the journalists said, ‘Were you nervous?,’ is because they would be nervous. Athletes would never say that to each other.”
A 10-Step System to Learn Anything
“Acquiring information is not learning. You can’t learn to write novels, ride a bike, wrestle, fill out spreadsheets, or write Java code by reading textbooks. T...
How To Tell The 11 Excuses That Hold You Back To F- Off
The biggest challenge in life is to get out of our own way. Fears, insecurities, and doubts inspire the excuses we use to hide from going after what we want. We...
Why You Should Make Useless Things
“That’s the true beauty of making useless things — it’s this acknowledgment that you don’t always know what the answer is. And it turns off that voice in your h...
How to Cultivate Your Imagination
“Ideas are, at their root, combinatorial. New ideas are combinations of two or more old ideas.”