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Category Archives: Choice
Declare Victory or Failure
Whenever you start a project, you should have a plan for finishing it. One outcome is to declare victory, to find that moment when you have satisfied your objectives and reached a goal. The other outcome, which feels like a … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Choice, Creativity, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Leading, Quotes
Tagged Choice, Seth Godin, Success
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The Greatest Enemy of Knowledge
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. –Stephen Hawking
Posted in Choice, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Quotes
Tagged Learning, Quotes, Stephen Hawking
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Perspective, Pt 2
A Jewish man was sitting in a Starbucks reading an Arab newspaper. A friend of his, who happened to be in the same store, noticed this strange phenomenon. Very upset, he approached him and said: ‘Moshe, have you lost your … Continue reading
Unreasonably Remarkable
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. – George Bernard Shaw Most of us live our lives as if we’re in … Continue reading
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Tagged Career, Choice, Control, Creativity
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You’re Always Allowed to do Big Work
No matter what position you’re in, whether it’s janitor or CEO, a huge part of your day is spent doing “small work”. Â This includes the clerical stuff, the scheduling, the filing, the organizing, and all the other things that just … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Choice, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Productivity, Self-Improvement
Tagged Choice, Control, Work
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On Marriage
From Ronald Regan to his son Mike, via Letters of Note: Dear Mike: Enclosed is the item I mentioned (with which goes a torn up IOU). I could stop here but I won’t. You’ve heard all the jokes that have … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Choice, Food For Thought, Quotes, Relationships, Self-Improvement
Tagged Marriage, relationships
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Opportunity Cost
How much does it cost to help your friend move on a Saturday? Â What if you had planned to take your son to a ballgame? Â What if you had planned to work overtime? There’s a cost to everything you do, … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Choice, Money, Productivity
Tagged Money, Opportunity Cost, Time
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Taking Control of Your Life: Concierge Medicine
Dr. Solis was on the edge of burnout after 21 years of running a traditional medical practice. Trying to see between 30 and 40 patients a day, keeping track of a roster of over 3,000 patients, and dealing with endless … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Choice, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Marketing, Video
Tagged Choices, Control, Life, Medicine
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Cost v. Benefit
It turns out, crime does pay.  Just not very much: The basic problem is the average haul from a bank job: for the three-year period, it was only £20,330.50 (~$31,613). And it gets worse, as the average robbery involved 1.6 … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Choice, Food For Thought, Productivity, Psychology
Tagged Career Choice, Choice, Crime, Life, Opportunity Cost
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Freedom, Responsibility, and Child Rearing
The New Yorker asks why American kids lack the responsibility so evident in children of (some) other cultures. Â The article concludes that an adolescence of parental fixing, making sure everything is perfect and the kid never fails, results in a … Continue reading
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Tagged Children, Parenting, Psychology, Teaching
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On Character
In Britain, it’s a crime to display a sign that is “threatening or abusive or insulting” with the intent to provoke “distress”, even if that sign is displayed in your own window. The local constabulary explained that citizens, “in the … Continue reading
Freedom
The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Choice, Diet, Food For Thought, Quotes, Rationality
Tagged Choice, Freedom, health
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Attitude
Attitudes are infectious. It’s why the happy, gregarious guy is always the life of the party and the center of attention. Everyone wants some of that happiness. It’s also why everyone avoids the depressed, quiet guy. It’s actually easier to … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Choice, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Leading, Persuasion, Psychology, Rationality, Relationships
Tagged Happiness, relationships, Self-Improvement
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Being Smarter Doesn’t Mean You Make Better Decisions
In fact, being smarter might actually lead you to make worse decisions. Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman and his scientists measured students on four different points of “cognitive sophistication”.  All four of those measurements were positively correlated with intelligence, meaning that the “more cognitively … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Choice, Food For Thought, Psychology, Quotes, Rationality
Tagged Critical Thinking, Daniel Kahneman, Rationality
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There Is No Speed Limit
Most of the world is designed for the lowest common denominator. Â Schools are designed to impart a set amount of knowledge to a diverse group of kids each year. Â It doesn’t much matter how smart you are, how interested you … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Choice, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Psychology, Self-Improvement
Tagged Derek Sivers, Goal, Life, Speed
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