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Polya Recommends Solving a Problem in Multiple Ways For True Understanding
Season 1 Episode 85
"It is better to solve one problem five different ways, than to solve five problems one way." — George Pólya
In this episode, I look at a line from Hu…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Strength Comes From Yourself As Well As Your Team, Says Kipling
Season 1 Episode 84
"For the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack." — Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
From a poem written in 1894, …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Do Our Experiences or Our Choices Shape Who We Are, Asked Darwish
Season 1 Episode 83
"Are we what we do with time, or are we what time does with us?" — Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence
Palestine's national poet asked one of …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Notke Warns Talented People Not To Coast On Their Gift
Season 1 Episode 82
"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard." — Tim Notke
Not Kevin Durant, though Durant's 2014 NBA MVP speech is what made it famous. The …
1 month, 4 weeks ago
How to Succeed Like A Rockefeller - Don't Neglect The Common Things
Season 1 Episode 81
"The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well." — John D. Rockefeller Jr.
Not John D. Rockefeller Sr. — his son, a substantial figu…
2 months ago
Mencius Describes What A Great Man Is
Season 1 Episode 80
"The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart." — Mencius
Sixteen words from a Chinese philosopher who lived 2,300 years ago — and they des…
2 months ago
Dostoevsky Learned That Active Love Isn't Easy, But Worth It
Season 1 Episode 79
A monk in a 19th century Russian novel said something about love that has never been improved upon.
"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing comp…
2 months ago
Artist Chuck Close Didn't Wait For Inspiration To Create, And Neither Should You
Season 1 Episode 78
"Inspiration is for amateurs — the rest of us just show up and get to work." — Chuck Close
Chuck Close spent his career building monumental photoreali…
2 months, 1 week ago
Ferriss Asks: What Is Really the Opposite of Love and Happiness?
Season 1 Episode 77
"The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom." — Tim Ferriss
One sentence. Two ideas. Both of them quietly radical.…
2 months, 1 week ago
Ziglar Asks: What Are You Waiting For?
Season 1 Episode 76
"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great." — Zig Ziglar
It sounds like a coffee mug quote. It's actually a precise diag…
2 months, 1 week ago