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Category Archives: Self-Improvement
Chasing Glamor
I want to be an architect so I can design amazing buildings. I want to be a lawyer so I can help people and win big cases. I want to be a rock star so I can make music. These … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Food For Thought, Future, Inspiration, Self-Improvement
Tagged Advice, Career Choice, Future, Glamor, Plan
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The Million Dollar Answer
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. – Mark Twain We spend a lot of time and money worrying. We walk around thinking about earthquakes and hurricanes and terrorist … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Quotes, Self-Improvement
Tagged Anxiety, Art, Baseball Analogies, Business, Crush It, Future, Insurance, Mark Twain, Plan, Sebastian Marshall, Success, Worry
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Fake It ‘Til You Make It: Physiologically Sound
From Psychology Today: The great surrealist artist Salvador Dali was described by his fellow students at the Madrid art academy as “morbidly” shy according to his biographer Ian Gibson. He had a great fear of blushing and his shame about … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Persuasion, Productivity, Quotes, Rationality, Self-Improvement
Tagged Body, Brain, Emotion, Mind, Physiology, Psychology, Rationality
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Don’t Shop When You’re Hungry
You’ll end up buying more than you want. Make plans when you’re fresh, not at the end of the day when you’re exhausted. Set goals when you’re on a roll; don’t undermine them after a failure. The hard part isn’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Goals, Guidelines, Plans, Rules, Seth Godin
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Why Procrastination Is Good
Very interesting thought from Cal Newport: The evolutionary perspective on procrastination, by contrast, says we delay because our frontal lobe doesn’t see a convincing plan behind our aspiration. The solution, therefore, is not to muster the courage to blindly charge … Continue reading
Posted in Food For Thought, Productivity, Quotes, Rationality, Self-Improvement
Tagged Cal Newport, Evolutionary Psychology, Procrastination
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Curiosity, or How Elon Musk Thinks
ELON MUSK: I think, generally, their {other people’s} thinking process is too bound by convention or analogy to prior experiences. So it’s very rare that people try to think of something on a first principles basis. They’ll say, “We’ll do … Continue reading
Posted in Food For Thought, Inspiration, Quotes, Rationality, Self-Improvement
Tagged Critial Thinking, First Principals, Thought Process
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Appreciation For Inaptitude
To the Gods: [Thanks] That I wasn’t more talented in rhetoric or poetry, or other areas. If I’d felt that I was making better progress I might never have given them up. – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book 1:17 You hear … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Business, Creativity, Inspiration, Quotes, Self-Improvement
Tagged Advice, Aptitude, Life, Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Plans
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I Don’t Know
My friend Richard Feynman said, “I don’t know.” I heard him say it several times. He said it just like Harold, the mentally handicapped dishwasher I worked with when I was a young man making minimum wage at Famous Bill’s … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Quotes, Rationality, Relationships, Self-Improvement
Tagged Answer, Honesty, I Don't Know, Question, Response, Truth
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Recognize When You’re Being An Asshole
There are some instances when I can’t stand wasting time. If someone’s driving 10 mph under the speed limit on a one lane road, I’m infuriated. If the one guy behind the counter at the post office is moving at … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Relationships, Self-Improvement
Tagged Asshole, Betterment, Calm, Fury, Inconvenience, people, Rage, Zen
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People Aren’t Racists, They’re Assholes
If I was black, I’m pretty sure I would think a huge section of our society was racist. If I was flamboyantly gay, I’m pretty sure I would think a huge section of our society was homophobic. If I was … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Food For Thought, Relationships, Self-Improvement
Tagged Adam Carolla, Assholes, Homophobia, Humanity, Life, Racism, relationships, Xenophobia
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Don’t Judge Me, Bro
Judgment is a basic animal process. A dog’s brain instantly processes hundreds of data points of sounds, smells, visual cues and behavioral phenomena to determine which animals are friendly and which are not. The reactions are so quick because these … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Food For Thought, Persuasion, Quotes, Rationality, Self-Improvement
Tagged Brain, How We Decide, Impression, Johnah Lehrer, Logos, Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Mind, Perception
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Does Going Back To School Make Sense?
I get asked a lot if I think it’s a good idea for someone in the workplace to go to graduate school. The long answer is, maybe. Like any other decision, you’re going to have to decide what outcome you’re … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Food For Thought, Self-Improvement
Tagged Back to School, Education, Self improvement is masturbation
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Appreciation
Nobody appreciates having clear nostrils and sinuses or a smooth throat until they have a cold. Nobody appreciates bending over until they throw their back out. Nobody appreciates sitting in the sun, or drinking a glass of wine, or eating … Continue reading
Posted in Food For Thought, Inspiration, Relationships, Self-Improvement
Tagged Appreciation, Body, Family, Mind, Thankful, Thanksgiving
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