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3.7%
On average, you have 78 years total to live. The first 18-25 are, hopefully, spent learning.  This leaves you with between 53 and 60 years to produce something worthwhile. Spending 2 years doing something you don’t enjoy is 3.4% … Continue reading
Posted in Food For Thought, Future, Inspiration, Self-Improvement
Tagged Death, Life, Purpose, Time
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The Gambler
Someone recently asked me how a certain card game was played. Â “What’s the best hand?” she asked. Â “What do you mean?” I asked back. Â (Note that people don’t like to be asked questions back…) Â She eventually asked what the best … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Psychology
Tagged Gambling, Life, Society, Starting Position, The Gambler
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Why Taking Time Off To Figure It Out Is A Mistake
Most people I know don’t really know what they want to do with the rest of their lives. Â This includes most really successful people I know. Â My grandfather, at 80 years old, used to say he didn’t know what he … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Quotes, Rationality, Video
Tagged Al Pittampalli, Decision making, Goals, Life, Passion, Quit, Time
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Biggest Regrets
Bronnie Ware had the opportunity to learn about a lot of people’s regrets. Â As a palliative nurse, she cared for those in the last three to twelve weeks of their lives. Â The most common regrets she encountered: I wish I’d … Continue reading
Posted in Food For Thought, Inspiration, Quotes
Tagged Choice, Decision, Life, Plan, Regrets
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A Hell of a Eulogy
Worrying about your legacy is ridiculous.  Fretting over how people you will never meet will come to judge your life is not only rewardless, it’s counter-productive.  It generally inhibits your ability  to focus on how the living, the people you … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Quotes, Relationships, Self-Improvement
Tagged Christopher Hitches, Death, Eulogy, Life, Planning
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How To Lose 20 Years Of Your Life
Depending on whose numbers you believe, Americans watch between 2.7 (BLS) and 4.9 (Nielsen) hours of television per day. Per day. Let’s split the difference and call it four hours a day. If you’re awake on average 16 hours a … Continue reading
Posted in Food For Thought, Rationality, Self-Improvement
Tagged Life, Television, TV, Waste
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A Plant Frequently Moved Never Grows Strong
A plant which is frequently moved never grows strong. People who spend their whole life traveling abroad end up having plenty of places where they can find hospitality but no real friendships. We place a big emphasis, and not wrongly, … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Productivity, Quotes, Relationships, Self-Improvement
Tagged experience, Goals, Life, mastery, relationships, Seneca, Stoicism, Travel
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The Purpose Of Life
I believe that the very purpose of life is to be happy. – Dalai Lama This quote has been dredged up again recently, floating around the internet for the last few weeks drawing criticism. Many people, especially, it seems, minimalists, … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Self-Improvement
Tagged Aristotle, Dalai Lama, Happiness, Life, Meaning, Philosophy, Purpose
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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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Life Is Always About Starting At The Bottom
Remember when you were in 8th or 9th grade? King of middle school? Big man on campus? Remember what happened just a short year later? Back to the bottom of the totem pole. You were no longer bigger than all … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Self-Improvement
Tagged Advice, Bottom, Hierarchy, Hustle, Life, Work
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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
Posted in Art, Business, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Self-Improvement
Tagged 30000 Days, Age, Death, Goal, Life, Planning, Time
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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
Posted in Advice, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Quotes, Self-Improvement
Tagged Goal, Life, Marcus Aurelius, Purpose, Worth
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Now’s The Best Time To Be Poor
I don’t mean “now” in terms of the Gregorian calendar, though it’s unquestionably true that it’s better to be “poor” now than at any other time in history, but “now” in terms of whatever stage of life you’re at. If … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Money
Tagged Age, Broke, Goal, Life, Money, Poor
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How To Ruin Your Life
It can ruin your life only if it ruins your character. Otherwise it cannot harm you — inside or out. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Book 4.8 A little preachy and smarmy for us modern folk? Maybe. But it’s still true. And, … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Quotes, Self-Improvement
Tagged Life, Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Philosophy, Stoicism
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Quit
Stephen Dubner, author of Freakonomics, also runs podcast by the same name. He recently put out an episode titled “The Upside of Quitting” that was full of interesting thoughts. Full transcript here, and my favorite quote below. “A quitter never … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Creativity, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Quotes, Rationality, Self-Improvement
Tagged Aptitude, Choice, Life, Path, Quitting, Sunk Cost Fallacy, Talent
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