Category Archives: Advice

A Hell of a Eulogy

Posted on December 16, 2011 by AJ Kessler

Worrying about your legacy is ridiculous.  Fretting over how people you will never meet will come to judge your life is not only rewardless, it’s counter-productive.  It generally inhibits your ability  to focus on how the living, the people you … Continue reading →

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How To Choose Friends

Posted on December 15, 2011 by AJ Kessler

Friends are important.  They may have a bigger influence on the direction of your life than anything else.  So isn’t it strange that some of our closest friends just happen to be people we stood next to on the bus … Continue reading →

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Three Tips To Help Convince People You’re Not A Serial Killer

Posted on December 13, 2011 by AJ Kessler

We deal with a lot of higher level stuff here, like strategy and philosophy, but I want to bring it down for a post to offer some very practical, easy to implement, and essential life tips. Today, I want to … Continue reading →

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Why The First “Follower” Is The Most Important

Posted on December 12, 2011 by AJ Kessler

A great lesson on how movements start, explained in this video in under three minutes, by Derek Sivers: It’s the first follower that turns a lone nut into a leader.  When you find a lone nut doing something great, have … Continue reading →

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A Plant Frequently Moved Never Grows Strong

Posted on December 11, 2011 by AJ Kessler

A plant which is frequently moved never grows strong. People who spend their whole life traveling abroad end up having plenty of places where they can find hospitality but no real friendships. We place a big emphasis, and not wrongly, … Continue reading →

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Hemingway’s Productivity Hack

Posted on December 10, 2011 by AJ Kessler

One of the things I’ve made an effort to get good at is to do the little things as I notice them.  As soon as I notice something that needs to be picked up, or put away, or moved, or … Continue reading →

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There Are No Shortcuts

Posted on December 8, 2011 by AJ Kessler

If you searched for diet books right now on amazon, how many results do you think you’d get?  Diet books are pretty popular, remember.  Definitely more than a couple hundred, right?  I would have guessed a couple thousand.  I would … Continue reading →

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Keeping It Real: People Want Sincerity, Not Honesty

Posted on December 7, 2011 by AJ Kessler

For almost all of hip hop’s existence, rappers and artists were judged, at least to some degree, on how “real” they were. “Real”, of course, didn’t mean honest or sincere, but was specifically defined as having “the right type of … Continue reading →

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The Purpose Of Life

Posted on December 6, 2011 by AJ Kessler

I believe that the very purpose of life is to be happy. – Dalai Lama This quote has been dredged up again recently, floating around the internet for the last few weeks drawing criticism.  Many people, especially, it seems, minimalists, … Continue reading →

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Choose Your Friends Wisely

Posted on December 5, 2011 by AJ Kessler

Who has a bigger influence on the person you turn out to be: your parents or your friends? Since at least the days of Freud, psychologists believed parents were the overwhelming factor in how their children turned out.  But, it … Continue reading →

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The Best The World Has To Offer?

Posted on December 4, 2011 by AJ Kessler

Most people are satisfied with the best the world has to offer. There’s actually quite a bit of social pressure to be satisfied by the best.  I’ve eaten with people at some of the world’s best restaurants who refuse to … Continue reading →

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For Granted

Posted on December 3, 2011 by AJ Kessler

It’s dark out.  Your windows are steamed over, caused by the temperature differential between your warm bedroom and the cold morning.  Your alarm clock trips, and your favorite song blasts from it speakers.  You wake up, stumble out of bed, … Continue reading →

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Wax-On, Wax-Off

Posted on December 2, 2011 by AJ Kessler

In The Karate Kid, Mr. Miyagi has Daniel-San spend his first four days of training waxing his cars, sanding his floors, and painting his house.  As Daniel-San is about to quit in frustration, Mr. Miyagi reveals that what he’s really … Continue reading →

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It’s Not Persistence, It’s Commitment

Posted on December 1, 2011 by AJ Kessler

What would you do if you got rejected, not once or twice, or even a dozen or two dozen times?  What would you do if got rejected 60 times? Kathryn Stockett decided she was going to succeed, no matter what: … Continue reading →

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The World Was Built By People No Smarter Than You

Posted on November 30, 2011 by AJ Kessler

When you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is the way it is, and your life is just to live your life inside the world; try not to bash into the walls too much, try to … Continue reading →

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