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Career Advice That Doesn't Suck
I recently got a message from a 22-year-old reader asking for career advice. Career advice is a topic area that I have always found interesting, probably because I fee...
Friday Question & Framework: August 4, 2023
Question: Which thorns do you choose?Framework: The Question of Nine.
The Retirement Trap
The Wall Street Journal recently released a visual breaking down how people spend their time in retirement. The visual shows that the majority of a retiree's time is s...
Friday Question & Framework: July 28, 2023
Question: What are the boat anchors in your life?Framework: Q1 relationships.
How Will You Choose to Live?
David Brooks first proposed a distinction between Résumé Virtues and Eulogy Virtues. Résumé Virtues are the things you put on your resume. Eulogy Virtues are the thing...
Friday Question & Framework: July 21, 2023
Question: The way you treat yourself.Framework: The Shirky Principle.
The Two Arrows of Life
The Parable of the Two Arrows: "In life, we cannot always control the first arrow. However, the second arrow is our reaction to the first. The second arrow is optional...
The Real Price of Success
I was recently struck by a realization: The people I read books about are very rarely the people I would ever want to trade lives with. Why? The price of their success...
Friday Question & Framework: July 7, 2023
Question: If I repeated this day for 100 days, would my life be better or worse?Framework: The 5 Second Rule.
My 10 Favorite Ideas of the Year
Welcome to the second half of 2023. If you've kept up your New Year's resolutions and feel on track, great! If not, that's ok, because even if the best time to start w...
Friday Question & Framework: June 30, 2023
Question: What would this look like if it were easy?Framework: The wind and the sun.
Investor vs. Borrower: A Mental Model for Life
A mental model is a way to think about the world. It is a tool—a lens through which you can simplify, evaluate, and make decisions in real time as you walk through lif...
Friday Question & Framework: June 23, 2023
This is the first in a new series of shorts that will cover one question and one framework to get you thinking heading into the weekend.Question: What are the elements...
The Blind Men & The Elephant: How to Change Your Mind
What have you changed your mind on recently? Egocentric Bias says that we convince ourselves of the accuracy of our own personal perspective—that we view ourselves as ...
The Public Speaking Guide
Confession: I am a nervous public speaker. But confident public speaking is a critical skill, so we need a set of strategies to increase our confidence and perform as ...
The Passion Paradox
In the early 1970s, Stanford psychology researcher Dr. Mark Lepper conducted a study with a group of young children that found those who had received a reward for comp...
How to Get Out of a Rut
You're firing on all cylinders personally and professionally—inspired and motivated. Then, suddenly, you aren't. Things become very, very difficult. You're in a rut.I'...
Work-Life Balance: A Player's Guide
A Reddit post I shared that read, "PSA: 20 years from now, the only people who will remember that you worked late are your kids" sparked a lot of online dialogue last ...
The Think Day
In the 1980s, Microsoft founder Bill Gates began an annual tradition he called the Think Week. Gates would seclude himself in a remote location, shut off all of his co...
The Paradox of Effort
While in Omaha at the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, I got into a long conversation with a friend and mentor on one particularly impressive facet of the show: The ...
The Magic of Character Invention
We all struggle with some degree of self-doubt and fear of failure. It's particularly common among ambitious high-achievers, who, by definition, are constantly putting...
The Time Billionaire
Investor Graham Duncan coined the phrase "Time Billionaire" as someone who has over one billion seconds to live.To me, being a “Time Billionaire” isn’t necessarily abo...
The Trap of the Extraordinary
We live in a culture that endlessly promotes and celebrates the achievement of the extraordinary—of those who accomplished some supreme feat in a single, narrow domain...
The Spotlight Effect
The Spotlight Effect is a common psychological phenomenon where we overestimate the degree to which other people are noticing or observing our actions, behaviors, appe...
How to Learn Anything: The Feynman Technique
The Learning Pyramid indicates that teaching is a much more effective driver of retention than reading or lecture. The goal should be to move rapidly to teaching in or...
The Personal Quarterly Review
The 1-in-60 Rule says that a 1-degree error in heading will cause a plane to miss its target by 1 mile for every 60 miles flown. Tiny deviations from the optimal cours...
The Four Idols: Money, Power, Pleasure, & Fame
The Four Idols framework says that everyone is driven by the pursuit of one (or more) of the following idols: Money, Power, Pleasure, and Fame.We make most of our dail...
The Simplicity Audit
Complexity is a silent killer of focus, clarity, and performance. This statement is true for businesses, but even more so for your work and life. It's easy to let comp...
The Deathbed Regret List
We're often told that we should live life according to a core set of values. The challenge, of course, is in determining and defining what these core values are.The De...
The Flow State Boot Up Sequence
The Boot Up Sequence is a fixed set of actions and environmental cues that mentally and physically mark the start of your work session. While it can be used for any wo...