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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
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Tagged Derek Sivers, Goal, Life, Speed
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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
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Tagged Career, Goal, Life, Linchpin, Work
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Don’t Work. Be Hated. Love Someone.
A commencement speech full of contrarian advice, some of it totally wrong, but definitely worth reading and thinking about: You’ve probably been told the big lie that “Learning is a lifelong processâ€and that therefore you will continue studying and taking … Continue reading
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Tagged Goal, Graduation, Life, Plans, Speech
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Why Sharing Your Goals Dooms You To Failure
If you want to accomplish something, it makes sense to tell people about it. After all, you might be able to collaborate with someone already working on something similar, or gain some ideas and insights from someone who has done … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Food For Thought, Persuasion, Productivity, Psychology, Rationality, Self-Improvement
Tagged Failure, Goal, Productivity, Success
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Make Life Easier By Not Deciding
When starting something, whether it’s an exercise routine or a new sleep schedule, or quitting something, like cigarettes or whiskey, conventional wisdom says to do it slowly. Â Cut back, or build up, gradually. Â Eat 100 less calories each day, or … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Rationality, Self-Improvement
Tagged Goal, Quitting, Starting, Systems
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Success and Failure: You’re Thinking About It Wrong
We dream that someday soon, someone will recognize our genius: a big time agent reads our script and signs us; a major creative director sees our work and is compelled to feature it; the CEO reads about a project we … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Career, Failure, Goal, Progress, Success
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You Are Not Too Busy
Richard Branson owns and operates more than 400 companies under his Virgin Group. He sells everything from music to trips to space. He sets world records on sailboats and hot-air balloons. He appears in movies and television shows. He writes … Continue reading
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Tagged Goal, GTD, Plan, Productivity, Richard Branson, Work Out
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Choose Your Friends Wisely
Who has a bigger influence on the person you turn out to be: your parents or your friends? Since at least the days of Freud, psychologists believed parents were the overwhelming factor in how their children turned out. But, it … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Creativity, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Relationships, Self-Improvement
Tagged Decision, Failure, Friends, Goal, Life, Losers, Mentors, Success, Winners
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It’s Not Persistence, It’s Commitment
What would you do if you got rejected, not once or twice, or even a dozen or two dozen times? What would you do if got rejected 60 times? Kathryn Stockett decided she was going to succeed, no matter what: … Continue reading
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Tagged Author, Commitment, Ends, Goal, Inspiration, Perseverance, Persistence, Writing
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30,000 Days, If You’re Lucky
You only get about 30,000 days, if you’re lucky. If you’re reading this, you’ve probably got less than 20,000 days left. That’s if you’re lucky. You might get cancer; you might have a heart attack or a stroke; you might … Continue reading
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Tagged 30000 Days, Age, Death, Goal, Life, Planning, Time
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Plans Are Good, Goals Are Better
Plans, the individual steps you think you’re going to take to accomplish something, are good. But, plans have this nasty tendency to fail pretty regularly. One of the steps just wasn’t feasible, or other people don’t do what they’re supposed … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Creativity, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Self-Improvement
Tagged Goal, Planning, Seth Godin
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The Idiocy of Worrying About Your Legacy
Marcus Aurelius, the 16th Emperor of Rome, the most powerful man on earth for a time, kept a journal of thoughts and notes for himself, to keep himself grounded. The twelve “books” worth of writings cover a broad range of … Continue reading
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Tagged Goal, Legacy, Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Purpose
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Remember What You’re Measured By
Pointless bustling of processions, opera arias, herds of sheep and cattle, military exercises. A bone flung to pet poodles, a little food in the fish tank. The miserable servitude of ants, scampering of frightened mice, puppets jerked on strings. Surrounded … Continue reading
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Tagged Goal, Life, Marcus Aurelius, Purpose, Worth
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Don’t Wait Until It’s Too Late: Define Your Priorities Now
Some good advice about priorities from Clayton Christensen over at the HBR: Over the years I’ve watched the fates of my HBS classmates from 1979 unfold; I’ve seen more and more of them come to reunions unhappy, divorced, and alienated … Continue reading
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Tagged Family, Goal, HBR, Priorities, relationships, Time
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The Small Change in Perception That Can Change Your Life
Who has a higher tolerance for pain: those who experience an acute injury, lots of pain at one time, or those who constantly suffer from pain? The answer is counter-intuitive, and the potential reason is fascinating. Dan Ariely has found … Continue reading
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Tagged Dan Ariely, Drive, Goal, Inspiration, Motivation, Rationality, Success, Upside of Irrationality
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