The Advice We Give Kids About Success Prevents Them From Being Happy
“It’s certainly good for children to have goals they’re working toward. But instead of always encouraging them to focus on what’s next on their to-do list, help...
Category: Self Improvement
How To Think Like A Hustler Instead Of A Sucker
“Chumps prefer a beautiful lie to an ugly truth. The sucker wants to believe certain things about life and so projects these wishes on to the real world, seeing...
How To Deal With Failure Like J.K. Rowling
“The act of falling to the ground comes with a strange and unintended side-effect. Liberation. With nothing more to lose, we have a foundation and this foundati...
David Lynch On Where Great Ideas Come From
“Ideas are like fish and you don’t make the fish, you catch the fish. Desiring an idea is like putting bait on a hook and lowering it into the water.”
How To Become As Confident As A Professional Poker Player
“She very much acknowledges that losing is a likely reality. Her expectation isn’t to win every time, but it’s to use her skill to give her an advantage over th...
If You Master Discomfort, You Can Master Anything
“Unfortunately, many people avoid discomfort. They do everything they can to avoid it. They are just too comfortable to be pushed or bothered to make a change o...
How To Get Excited About Topics That Bore You
“Most people need to go back and forth between focused and diffuse modes in order to learn a topic. When you can’t solve something in the first focus, you’re no...
How To Improve Your Life One Experiment At A Time
When we experiment, we improve. Just ask Facebook. The social juggernaut operates 10,000 different versions of its platform at all times to enable a constant st...
How to Make the Most of Your Weekends
“A good weekend isn’t about turning off the brain and checking out. Instead, it’s about corralling that precious free time for meaningful pursuits — the harder ...
Why You Should Stop Looking for Your Voice
“There is no ‘voice’ to find, no voice that belongs to the true you, because there is no true you, only ever versions of yourself you have learned to perform, a...