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Category Archives: Advice
Changing Tides
Digital delivery and consumption has completely changed the publishing industry. Â For thousands of years, reading was something you did by yourself. Â Unless you announced it, nobody knew if you even opened a book you bought, let alone finished it. Â 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. Â To some extent, this is healthy. Â If most of us realized how ugly and dumb we really were, we’d have trouble leaving the house, landing … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Creativity, Diet, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Money, Self-Improvement
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. Â Unfortunately, this is a recipe for mediocracy. Â 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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Death of the Hobby
Hobbies used to exist as a way to entertain ourselves. Â If you had some extra time, you collected stamps, or watched birds, or built ships in a bottle. Â You sought out activities to stimulate your mind. Â Hobbies were an essential … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Food For Thought, Productivity, Self-Improvement
Tagged Brain, Hobbies, Work
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Hard Work Is Never Wasted
In school, a lot of kids ask “When will I ever need to know this?” Â Why do I need to know how to solve for x? Â Who cares whether Amenhotep or Ramesses ruled Egypt first? Â When will I ever need … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Creativity, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Psychology, Rationality, Self-Improvement
Tagged Hard, Learning, Persistence, Work
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Freedom, Responsibility, and Child Rearing
The New Yorker asks why American kids lack the responsibility so evident in children of (some) other cultures. Â The article concludes that an adolescence of parental fixing, making sure everything is perfect and the kid never fails, results in a … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Choice, Food For Thought, Leading, Psychology, Rationality, Relationships, Self-Improvement
Tagged Children, Parenting, Psychology, Teaching
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Magic Bullets
From an ESPN piece on Ryan Lochte, who is looking to spoil Michael Phelps’ final Olympics next month: “I’m not the most talented swimmer,” Lochte adds. “So I try to outwork everyone else.” It’s Sunday. A day of rest. The … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Productivity, Psychology, Quotes, Self-Improvement, Tips
Tagged Shortcut, Work Hard
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Good Point
The only Powerpoint advice you need, from Seth Godin, reproduced in part here, in case a meteor hits his server and this gem is lost forever: Communication is about getting others to adopt your point of view, to help them … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Aesthetics, Business, Creativity, Marketing, Persuasion, Quotes, Relationships, Seth Godin
Tagged Powerpoint, Presentation, Sales, Seth Godin, Speech
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Freedom
The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Choice, Diet, Food For Thought, Quotes, Rationality
Tagged Choice, Freedom, health
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Possibilities
We have more tools available than ever before to accomplish whatever it is we want to accomplish.  And technology changes so fast that you can expect to have access to tools you might not have even dreamed of every few years. Just … Continue reading
Sell Before You Build
Derek Sivers describes a marketing genius’ approach to writing: Marketing guru Jay Abraham, in the pre-internet days, would run classified ads in newspapers and magazines. If he wanted to write a book about something, he’d run a classified ad, taking … Continue reading
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Tagged Marketing, Writing
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Attitude
Attitudes are infectious. It’s why the happy, gregarious guy is always the life of the party and the center of attention. Everyone wants some of that happiness. It’s also why everyone avoids the depressed, quiet guy. It’s actually easier to … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Choice, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Leading, Persuasion, Psychology, Rationality, Relationships
Tagged Happiness, relationships, Self-Improvement
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Being Smarter Doesn’t Mean You Make Better Decisions
In fact, being smarter might actually lead you to make worse decisions. Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman and his scientists measured students on four different points of “cognitive sophistication”.  All four of those measurements were positively correlated with intelligence, meaning that the “more cognitively … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Choice, Food For Thought, Psychology, Quotes, Rationality
Tagged Critical Thinking, Daniel Kahneman, Rationality
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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
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Choice, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Psychology, Self-Improvement
Tagged Derek Sivers, Goal, Life, Speed
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