“How close are you to achieving your potential? I was around five or ten percent. For the last 137 days, I think I got closer to about 60.”
Six Ways to Grow Yourself and Your Business
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 expect to do the right thing.”
5 Ideas For The Interested This Week
“If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn’t arrive.” — Ian Fleming
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 everything we care about.”
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 like to burn it, and which one you love so much you’d steal it.”
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.”
5 Ideas For The Interested This Week
“A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.” — Edmond de Goncourt
My Most Productive Days Are a Result of These Five Choices
A simple framework to get your most important work done.