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Category Archives: Advice
Superiority
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” – Ernest Hemingway
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Tagged Ernest Hemingway, Goals
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Declare Victory or Failure
Whenever you start a project, you should have a plan for finishing it. One outcome is to declare victory, to find that moment when you have satisfied your objectives and reached a goal. The other outcome, which feels like a … Continue reading
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Tagged Choice, Seth Godin, Success
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How to Say Nothing in 500 Words
Paul McHenry Roberts (1917-1967) taught college English for over twenty years, first at San Jose State College and later at Cornell University. He wrote numerous books on linguistics, including Understanding Grammar (1954), Patterns of English (1956), and Understanding English (1958). Paul also wrote this essay, which … Continue reading
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Tagged Expression, Reason, Thinking, Writing
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Systematic Learning
Chris Guillebeau was interested in building a lifestyle business (i.e. something that requires little startup capital and lots of flexibility). Instead of picking a business at random, Chris did what we should all do. In The $100 Startup, Chris started … Continue reading
Of Studies
Sir Francis Bacon was a true Renaissance man. A lawyer, statesman, an educator, a philosopher, and perhaps the first modern scientist, Bacon is also accused of authoring some or all of Shakespeare’s works. This fringe theory fits well because of … Continue reading
You’re Always Allowed to do Big Work
No matter what position you’re in, whether it’s janitor or CEO, a huge part of your day is spent doing “small work”. This includes the clerical stuff, the scheduling, the filing, the organizing, and all the other things that just … Continue reading
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Tagged Choice, Control, Work
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On Marriage
From Ronald Regan to his son Mike, via Letters of Note: Dear Mike: Enclosed is the item I mentioned (with which goes a torn up IOU). I could stop here but I won’t. You’ve heard all the jokes that have … Continue reading
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Tagged Marriage, relationships
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Earning Trust
Where does trust come from? Hint: it never comes from the good times and from the easy projects. We trust people because they showed up when it wasn’t convenient, because they told the truth when it was easier to lie … Continue reading
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Tagged Seth Godin, Trust
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Opportunity Cost
How much does it cost to help your friend move on a Saturday? What if you had planned to take your son to a ballgame? What if you had planned to work overtime? There’s a cost to everything you do, … Continue reading
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Tagged Money, Opportunity Cost, Time
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Taking Control of Your Life: Concierge Medicine
Dr. Solis was on the edge of burnout after 21 years of running a traditional medical practice. Trying to see between 30 and 40 patients a day, keeping track of a roster of over 3,000 patients, and dealing with endless … Continue reading
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Tagged Choices, Control, Life, Medicine
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Cost v. Benefit
It turns out, crime does pay. Just not very much: The basic problem is the average haul from a bank job: for the three-year period, it was only £20,330.50 (~$31,613). And it gets worse, as the average robbery involved 1.6 … Continue reading
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Tagged Career Choice, Choice, Crime, Life, Opportunity Cost
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Changing Tides
Digital delivery and consumption has completely changed the publishing industry. For thousands of years, reading was something you did by yourself. Unless you announced it, nobody knew if you even opened a book you bought, let alone finished it. Now, … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Change, Marketing
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Lazy, Weak and Dumb
People overwhelmingly think they’re smarter, stronger, more industrious and better looking than they really are. To some extent, this is healthy. If most of us realized how ugly and dumb we really were, we’d have trouble leaving the house, landing … Continue reading
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Tagged Goals, Lazy, Systems
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How To Succeed (Advice from Seth Godin)
Advice from Seth Godin: You don’t need all of these, and some are mutually exclusive (while others are not). And most don’t work, don’t scale or can’t be arranged: Be very focused on your goal and work on it daily … Continue reading
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Tagged Advice, How to Win, Seth Godin, Success
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Compared to What
It’s easy to convince yourself that you’re doing well if you compare yourself to your peers who are doing worse than you. Unfortunately, this is a recipe for mediocracy. Eventually, your self-induced laziness lets your peers catch up and then … Continue reading
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Tagged Goals, Life, Measure
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