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Back to SearchThe Hidden Mindset That Shapes Your Entire Life
Episode 334
Want the key to success? As crazy as it sounds, I might actually be able to give it to you in the next 3 minutes...
You see, I spend a lot of time thi…
9 months, 1 week ago
The Best Advice From Your Father
Episode 333
In honor of Father’s Day, I asked over 1 million readers a simple question:
What was the single best piece of advice you ever received from your fathe…9 months, 1 week ago
How to Survive Hard Times
Episode 332
When life gets hard, most people retreat to one of two worlds:
Naive Optimism: This is the world of pure positivity. It is marked by an unwillingness …9 months, 2 weeks ago
7 Lessons from Steve Jobs’ Legendary Speech
Episode 331
It’s commencement speech season.
I recently shared a series of powerful lessons from David Foster Wallace’s This Is Water commencement speech on its…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Feeling Stuck? Ask These 8 Questions
Episode 330
According to a famous legend, the ancient land of Phrygia (in what is now modern-day Turkey) was without a king. An oracle proclaimed that the next m…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
AI and the Tragedy of the Commons
Episode 329
In 1968, an ecologist named Garrett Hardin published an essay that described the perils of individual short-term thinking on shared resources:
"Pict…9 months, 3 weeks ago
The Dangers of Blind Consistency
Episode 328
I recently came across a quote I can't stop thinking about:
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds..." – Ralph Waldo EmersonWe live i…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
The Paradox of Mastery
Episode 327
In 1921, an Austrian philosopher named Ludwig Wittgenstein concluded his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus with the following passage:
“My propositions a…9 months, 4 weeks ago
7 Reflections from a “Think Week” Retreat
Episode 326
Last week, I went on my first “Think Week” retreat.
Three days. Limited connectivity. No meetings. Just reading, deep conversations, journaling, and t…
10 months ago
The Perspective Shift That Changes Everything
Episode 325
One of my favorite quotes comes from Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse:
“We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have …10 months ago