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Category Archives: Self-Improvement
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
Posted in Advice, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Self-Improvement
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
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Creativity, Inspiration, Self-Improvement
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
Posted in Advice, Inspiration, Productivity, Self-Improvement
Tagged Faster, Learning, Skills
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Hope Is Bad
Hope is disappointment, delayed. If you need something done, craft a plan, and make it happen. Don’t sit around and hope it’s going to turn out the way you want it to. It won’t. Hope is what’s left after you’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Food For Thought, Inspiration, Self-Improvement
Tagged Hope, Inaction, Plan, Prayer
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On Handling Critics
Anyone who produces art, or voices opinions, or does anything publicly, will have critics. Guaranteed. I wrote a post about frugality that got a tiny bit of attention on the web and was bombarded with insults. Did I care? Well, … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Creativity, Food For Thought, Quotes, Relationships, Self-Improvement
Tagged Advice, Criticism, Ego, Quotes
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Mark Zuckerberg Isn’t Mark Zuckerberg
I can’t say this more succinctly than Seth Godin, so I’ll just copy it here: “Mark Zuckerberg” has become a codeword for the truly gifted exception, the wunderkind freak of nature for whom traditional rules don’t apply. Well, sure, Mark … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Business, Creativity, Inspiration, Quotes, Self-Improvement
Tagged Genius, Mark Zuckerberg, Seth Godin, Work
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Being Absurd: It Works
We’ve talked before about how an anchor point can seriously change the course of any negotiation. This effect, where you plant a number in someone’s mind, works because people aren’t terribly rational. They’re unwittingly susceptible to all sorts of manipulation, … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Money, Negotiation, Persuasion, Rationality, Self-Improvement
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Beat Procrastination By Being Self-Centered
If you work any sort of normal job, you’re probably forced to do a lot of stuff you’re not terribly enthusiastic about doing. Paradoxically, this work can often take longer because we tend to lose focus. We stall, we procrastinate, … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Inspiration, Productivity, Self-Improvement
Tagged Boring, Job, Procrastination, Productivity, Work
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60 Chances
If you’re really lucky, or extremely unlucky, you may realize how short your time is on this planet sometime in your teens. For most people, this revelation comes much later, but let’s be generous and use 15 years old as … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Productivity, Self-Improvement, Time Tracking
Tagged Chances, Opportunity, Time
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Why Motivational Speakers Don’t Motivate
Dr. Jim Taylor, who has a PhD in psychology, says the “inspirational-industrial complex” is a sham. Why, you ask? Because the inspiration that comes from other people is manufactured from the outside. This “synthetic” inspiration simply can’t last long because … Continue reading
Posted in Food For Thought, Inspiration, Productivity, Quotes, Self-Improvement
Tagged Gurus, Inspiration, Motivation, Productivity
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Priorities
Power is out. Pretty much everywhere south of Los Angeles. Our entire operation shut down immediately. Even in an office where everyone basically just reads and writes all day, a loss of power is totally crippling. There was nowhere to … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Relationships, Self-Improvement
Tagged Church, Meditation, Priorities, Reevaluate
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Your Horsepower Is Irrelevant
An engine can only produce so much horsepower. If you’ve got a 300 horsepower engine, it’ll produce 300 horsepower. Sure, you can expend a lot of effort, bore those cylinders out and up the horsepower 10%, but you’re still in … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Inspiration, Productivity, Self-Improvement
Tagged Analogies, Brain, Engine, Horsepower, Racing, Sacrifice, Work Ethic
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How Important Is Boredom?
A thought provoking article by Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, in the Wall Street Journal: If you have a smartphone in your pocket, a game console in the living room, a Kindle in your backpack and an iPad in the kitchen, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Business, Creativity, Quotes, Self-Improvement
Tagged Boredom, Meditation, Reflection
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It’s Not God-Given Talent
Professional athletes have god-given talents. Movie stars have big breaks. Musicians get discovered. Executives have connections; uncles or fathers or friends who got them into the business. These are all variations on the same excuse we use to justify someone’s … Continue reading
Posted in Food For Thought, Inspiration, Self-Improvement
Tagged Ability, God-Given, Luck, Talent
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