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Category Archives: Advice
Minimum Viable Personality
Excellent thoughts here on cultivating personality in your products. Note that just about everything can be thought of as a product. If you produce reports for a living, the report is your product. You can create a brand out of … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Business, Creativity, Personality, relationships
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Stop: You Don’t Know His Motivation Until You Ask
A friend of mine once bought a house for roughly half of what it was worth. The market was still booming. The seller certainly could have gotten more. Why would anyone make such a terrible deal? John G. emailed to … Continue reading
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Tagged Interaction, Negotiation, people, relationships
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On Being Too Good
When Roger Bannister broke the 4:00 barrier, a wave of runners suddenly poured through the hole he had smashed. Before Bannister, a sub four minute mile was unthinkable. After Banister, well, who cares if you ran a 3:59? So did … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Business, Creativity, mastery, Practice, Technique
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The Secret To Success Is Failure
Dominic Randolph is the headmaster at an elite New York prep school. His clientele is made up of offspring of New York’s elite, a group of rich and powerful people who fork over $38,500 for pre-kindergarten. These kids, you might … Continue reading
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Tagged Character, Ethics, Failure, Fortitude, Grit, Morals, Self-Improvement, Success
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Selling Out Your Dream For $140 A Week
You’ve got two job offers: Option 1 is a job at a fantastic company, with great people, doing something you want to be doing. Option 2 is a job at a good company, with good people, doing ok work. But, … Continue reading
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Tagged Decision making, Dream Job, Evaluation, Goal, Priorities
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Test Your Way To A Raise
Testing is fundamentally important to increase your odds of success. Yes, you may have been born an athletic freak. You may write a screenplay that strikes the right tone at the right time and is wildly successful. You may come … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Business, Self-Improvement, Testing, Tracking
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Should I Go To Medical School?
A lot of bright young people consider going into medicine. Like any profession, it has its downsides, but, at least to me, it was pretty obvious that those downsides were much bigger than in many other fields. But, not having … Continue reading
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Tagged Doctor, Mecial School, Medicine, Physician, Question
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Relationship Rot
More pithiness from Seth Godin: Most partnerships don’t end up in court. Most friendships don’t end in a fight. Most customers don’t leave in a huff. Instead, when one party feels underappreciated, or perhaps taken advantage of, she stops showing … Continue reading
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Tagged Appreciation, Recognition, relationships, Seth Godin
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Identifying Bias: It’s Not Just Bribes That Motivate
I was reading the comments on this CNN article, titled “Experts Caution Against Stem Cell Treatments Abroad.” They’re pretty typical of CNN comments: CorrDNEqCaus All I’m reading here is, “Don’t trust these treatments until we’re able to provide them and … Continue reading
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Tagged Bias, debate, Experts, Rationality, Thought Process
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The Scary Truth About Happiness
Unfortunately, you can’t buy happiness, because happiness doesn’t come from doing things that make you feel good. Happiness doesn’t come from laying on the beach, or vacationing in Europe, or shopping, or eating, or drinking, or partying, or fucking. Happiness … Continue reading
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Tagged Happiness, Pride, Principles, Work Ethic
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Liars, Damn Liars, and Quotes
Quotes and quips and one liners and zingers are fantastic. The best ones can encapsulate a lifetime of wisdom into a single sentence. But, the worst ones can be terribly misleading. The trouble is separating the good from the bad. … Continue reading
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Tagged Danger, Fallacy, Marketing, Quotes, Sergey Brin, Seth Godin
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The World’s Second Most Valuable Skill
Awareness is vital. If you can’t pick up on the things going on around you, you’ll almost certainly never be phenomenal at anything. Curiosity isn’t far behind. You can be aware of everything at all times, but if you’re not … Continue reading
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Tagged Accomplishment, Dream, Goal, JSK, Perseverance
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The Single Best Technique To Understand Anything
I’ve written before about how to learn faster. It’s still great advice. And, again, learning doesn’t stop when you get handed a diploma. If you’re reading this, you probably learning something new every year, if not every month or every … Continue reading
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Tagged Faster, Learning, Skills
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My Attorney Will Be In Contact With You
A guy in a suit knocks on your door. He flashes a badge and wants to ask you a few questions about your involvement at your company. Or with your stock broker. Or with your neighbor. What do you say? … Continue reading
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