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The Best Ideas of 2024
Welcome to the final Wednesday issue of 2024. For the third year in a row, I sent out over 100 newsletters to my subscribers—two per week, every single week. In fact, ...
Weekly Question & Framework: December 20, 2024
Framework: The Grow30 ChallengeQuestion: What answers are hidden in the actions you avoid?
The Annual Planning Guide
The Annual Planning Guide includes: (1) my simple goal-setting framework, (2) three system-building mental models, and (3) a strategy for tracking and adjusting throug...
Weekly Question & Framework: December 13, 2024
Question: What are you doing to reveal the invisible opportunities?Framework: The Four Quarters Technique
The Personal Annual Review
The end of the calendar year presents us with a unique and valuable opportunity: To reflect on the year that was and plan for the year that will be.I started conductin...
Weekly Question & Framework: December 6, 2024
Question: Who are your Darkest Hour Friends?Framework: The Nova Effect
My Honest Advice to Someone Who Wants to Make A Lot of Money
I see a lot of bad advice out there when it comes to how to do that—most of it trying to sell you on the easy way to make money.This piece is my attempt to offer some ...
An Open Letter to My Lost Younger Self
Every month, I receive hundreds of messages, emails, and questions from people all around the world. The single most common question that comes up: "I feel lost. What ...
Weekly Question & Framework: November 15, 2024
Question: Do you want to be liked or loved?Framework: Amor Fati
Make the Dash Count
One year ago, my family came together to mourn the loss of my grandmother. Reflecting on the experience later, I was struck by one thing: The card for the memorial had...
A Few Ideas I Can't Stop Thinking About
One of the greatest joys of my life is that I often get to spend time in rooms surrounded by big thinkers. Rooms with an extraordinary idea density.There are certain t...
Weekly Question & Framework: November 1, 2024
Question: Are you embracing your Pattern Interrupts?Framework: Zeigarnik Effect
13 Harsh Truths About Success Nobody Told You
Success isn't what you think. You're sold a glossy, filtered version of success. The reality looks different.In today's piece, I want to share the harsh truths about s...
Weekly Question & Framework: October 25, 2024
Question: Does your situation need to change, or just your outlook on it?Framework: The Cobra Effect
The Most Important Resistance in Life
“Hard times create strong men, strong men create easy times, easy times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.” - G. Michael HopfWe live in an ease-obsessed ...
Weekly Question & Framework: October 18, 2024
Question: Are you allowing self-protection to become self-rejection?Framework: Hedgehogs vs. Foxes
4 Simple Habits to Transform Your Weeks
It's easy to allow your weeks to spiral out of control as you try to navigate your personal and professional responsibilities. Fortunately, I developed some tricks tha...
Weekly Question & Framework: October 11, 2024
Question: How can you decide to be happy today?Framework: The Ludic Fallacy
The Case for Slowing Down
More intensity is not the answer. To achieve the things you want in life, you must pursue them with balance. Unfortunately, in the modern era, to pursue things with ba...
Weekly Question & Framework: October 4, 2024
Question: What are the beliefs that no longer serve me?Framework: The Dartmouth Scar Experiment
11 Things I Quit to Transform My Life
In my 20s, I nearly drove myself mad adding more and more new things to my life. Today, I'm 33, happier, healthier, and more successful than I've ever been—but in toda...
Weekly Question & Framework: September 27, 2024
Question: How can you change your outlook by changing your perspective?Framework: The Theory of Constraints
How to Stop Overthinking
I've come to believe that there is one common theme that holds people back from living the life they want—and the life they are capable of living: Overthinking.In toda...
Weekly Question & Framework: September 20, 2024
Question: How will you respond when you find yourself in the valley?Framework: The Two Types of Happiness
The Taxes of Life You Need to Pay
"All the things which cause complaint or dread are like the taxes of life—things from which, my dear Lucilius, you should never hope for exemption or seek escape." - S...
Weekly Question & Framework: September 13, 2024
Question: What sacrifices are you willing to make to get the things you want?Framework: Winston's Star
8 Lessons from a Marathon (That Have Nothing to Do With Running)
Last weekend, I ran my second marathon in 2:53:38. This was a 4-minute personal best.During the suffering of miles 20-26 and the journey home after the race, I found m...
Weekly Question & Framework: September 6, 2024
Question: What are the lesser goals keeping you from your real goals?Framework: The Riptide Mentality
The Most Powerful Life Hacks I've Found
For the last several years, I've kept a running list of my favorite life hacks. I add and subtract from the list whenever I come across new ideas that create value in ...
Weekly Question & Framework: August 30, 2024
Question: What are the barriers within you that need to be broken?Framework: The Beginner's Paradox