Subscribe Via RSS:
This blog is updated Daily.
Category Archives: Self-Improvement
How To Be 10x Happier In Just 60 Minutes A Day
If you have a job, chances are most of your waking hours are not your own.  Most of all your hours may not be your own.  Between the time it takes you to get ready in the morning, your commute, and … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Choice, Creativity, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Psychology, Rationality, Self-Improvement
Tagged Choice, Control, Depression, Fear, Happiness, How to be Happy
Leave a comment
Make Yourself Redundant
There’s a lot of career advice out there that implores you to make yourself indispensable. Â Taken the right way, this is clearly good advice. Â But I’ve seen this misinterpreted any number of times. Â Making yourself indispensable or irreplaceable in terms … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Business, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Money, Self-Improvement
Tagged Career, Goal, Life, Linchpin, Work
Leave a comment
Big Money
There’s a not-so-strange tendency for people make really poor financial decisions when there’s a lot of money involved. If you’re buying a $50,000 car that comes with 17″ aluminum wheels, but the salesman offers you the fancy 18″ chrome wheels … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Choice, Food For Thought, Psychology, Rationality, Self-Improvement
Tagged Dream, Goals, Money, Personal Finance, Plan, Savings, Value
Leave a comment
How To Beat Distraction
Everyone gets distracted. Â We’re wired to. Â Those of us who weren’t didn’t get to pass their genes along. Â Everyone can be sucked into procrastination mode, even if you really love what you do. Â (Which is why you should schedule your … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Choice, Food For Thought, Psychology, Self-Improvement
Tagged Distraction, Meditation, Psychology, Quiet, Reflection
1 Comment
Psychology of Morality
At least one study shows that our default setting might be to cheat.  Only when we have a bit of time for reflection does our penchant for morality kick in: Dr Shalvi, Dr Eldar and Dr Bereby-Meyer gave each of 76 … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Business, Food For Thought, Psychology, Self-Improvement
Tagged Liar, Lie, Psychology, Truth
Leave a comment
Plodding Wins The Race
The hare was once boasting of his speed before the other animals. “I have never yet been beaten,” he said. Â “I challenge anyone here to race with me.” The Tortoise said quietly, “I accept your challenge.” “That’s funny,” said the … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Creativity, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Quotes, Self-Improvement
Tagged Aesop, Fable, Success, Work Ethic
Leave a comment
Create More Than You Consume
It’s very easy to consume. Â We’ve created a culture that glamorizes it. Â Television and internet access alone are unending conveyer belts, delivering as much distraction and escapism as you can possibly guzzle. Â But we also have magazines, books, movie theaters, … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Choice, Creativity, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Productivity, Self-Improvement
Tagged Consume, Consumption, Create, Creativity, Time Tracking
2 Comments
On Luck
Luck is an interesting concept. Â Many of the successful people I know consider themselves lucky. Â Not just from a “I’m lucky to have been successful” standpoint, but from a “chance events usually seem to benefit me” standpoint. Â Part of this … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Self-Improvement
Tagged Disappointment, Luck, Opportunity
1 Comment
How To Break A Habit
We’ve talked before about building habits. Â That’s important. Â But so is breaking habits. Â Luckily, unlike forcing yourself to repeatedly do something new and scary, breaking existing habits isn’t nearly as hard. Â One of the easiest ways is simply to substitute … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Choice, Creativity, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Persuasion, Productivity, Psychology, Quotes, Rationality, Self-Improvement, Video
Tagged Change, Habits
Leave a comment
The Path of Aloneness
Miyamoto Musashi is regarded as the best swordsman in Japanese history, and one of the greatest warriors in history. Â He was also a devout strategist. Â Written during the week he spent preparing for his own death, a period in which … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Creativity, Food For Thought, Quotes, Self-Improvement
Tagged Duty, Minimalism, Mushashi, Tyler Durden
5 Comments
…But No One Else Is Doing It
It’s scary if you’re the only one doing something. Â The immediate thought is that you must be doing something wrong. Â Surely, if you were right, someone else would be doing it. Sometimes, that’s true. Â Nobody is selling bacon-flavored oxygen because … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Creativity, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Psychology, Rationality, Self-Improvement
Tagged Art, Fear, Scary
Leave a comment
Problem Solving In The Real World
From about 5 years old to somewhere between 18 and 30 years old, we’re asked to solve problems in some specific way in order to demonstrate we understand what the professor was paid to teach us. Â You’re allowed to use … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Food For Thought, Psychology, Self-Improvement
Tagged Academia, Academics, Problem, Structure, Thinking
2 Comments
Atheism 2.0: Religious Benefits for the Secular Life
The video, embedded below, is difficult to quote, but touches on some of the issues we’ve discussed before. Â Definitely worth soaking in:
Posted in Food For Thought, Psychology, Rationality, Self-Improvement
Tagged Alain de Botton, Atheism, Religion
Leave a comment
Who Am I
When I see those paparazzi pictures of Fat Kevin Federline, sometimes sporting dopey cornrows, sometimes waddling across some anonymous poolside deck with beer in hand, I imagine a guy who does not know who he is, what he is supposed … Continue reading
Posted in Food For Thought, Inspiration, Psychology, Quotes, Self-Improvement
Tagged Be, Being, Change, Life, Opportunity
Leave a comment
What You Want
Alain de Botton with a good reminder: One of the interesting things about success is that we think we know what it means. A lot of the time our ideas about what it would mean to live successfully are not … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Psychology, Quotes, Rationality, Self-Improvement
Tagged Desire, Dream, Happiness, Hope, Philosophy, Success
Leave a comment
.