Bruce Lee’s Letters to Himself Reveal His Personal Development Process
“Among people, a great majority don’t feel comfortable at all with the unknown — that is anything foreign that threatens their protected daily mould — so for th...
Category: Self Improvement
Rituals Are More Powerful Than Routines
“Routine is about function: the stuff we need to, or have to, get out of the way. Rituals, on the other hand, are informed by intent.”
How to Create a Joke like a Late Night Talk Show Host
“When you have to write over 100 topical jokes each day, there’s no time to wait for inspiration to strike. You need a reliable algorithm.”
How to Tell Stories like Abraham Lincoln
“You need to spark people’s interest by starting with the context, then hold their attention because something happens that causes a change, then end with an ou...
How to Rewrite the Story of Your Life
“Every hero has an origin story, but it’s possible you’ve chosen the wrong story to define how you came to be the person you are.”
How a Conversation Dinner Can Change the Way You Communicate
“Most conversations nowadays are one-sided, involving one party simply waiting for his or her turn to speak. The Conversation Dinner was something else. It felt...
25 Principles of Adult Behavior
“Never assume the motives of others are, to them, less noble than yours are to you.”
How to Get People to Do Things They Don’t Want to Do
“Providing a sense of progression is a form of feedback and is a key component of making unpleasant tasks more manageable.”
Why Our Preoccupation with Happiness Has Made Us Less Happy
“Happiness studies seem to be a way of convincing people they’re happy — or could be happy — even as they’re being dealt increasingly bad hands in terms of thin...
Why Sitting Down Destroys You
“Fitness talks muscles before spine. Gymnasts focus on how they are moving their body — and they also just happen to have awesome posture and a really strong co...