If you want to build a network, an audience, and a tribe of like-minded peers, you need to learn how to influence people. Have you ever noticed somebody in the field you’re in (or aspire to be in) just come out of nowhere? Whenever you see someone make a meteoric rise, know that it’s often […]

Ugh, another blog post on the benefits of waking up early. Don’t we already have enough of these? Look, before we dive into the tips, let me start by saying this — you don’t have to wake up early. You’re not destined for failure if you wake up early. I’m not going to look down […]

Future notorious gangster Henry Hill walks out of the courtroom. He’s greeted by Jimmy Conway, also a notorious gangster. Henry is surprised to see Jimmy smiling. He’d been pinched — arrested for a crime and questioned by the police — after being caught illegally selling cigarettes from the back of a truck. Having, in his mind, […]

Here’s a seemingly dumb question with a counterintuitive answer: Would you rather experience a shorter or longer duration of pain? Stated this way, the answer is obvious, but Nobel Prize winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman conducted an experiment that produced the opposite one. In the first round of the experiment, subjects put their hands in ice cold […]

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool.” – Richard Feynman You know what I love about books and blog posts? They give you a rare opportunity. What’s opportunity, you ask? The opportunity to be honest with yourself. See, it’s hard, to be honest with yourself in most other situations. Hell, […]

I’m very lazy. I’m a chronic procrastinator. Keeping myself organized is like pulling teeth. In spite of all this, I’ve built a career and life I love. How did I overcome my obstacles? My Simple Secret to Career Success I’ve tried a lot of different routes to success. Most of them failed. I joined more […]

Bashing self-help is all the rage these days. In 2018 (and beyond) it’s cool to be the nonchalant type who doesn’t care about goals, sees competition as inherently evil, thinks self-help is a charlatan’s game and mocks people who want to improve. Let’s just call a spade a spade. They’re full of it. They won’t […]

I’m going to start by confirming a belief about behavior change you already have. You’re destined to fail.  You know this. When January is around the corner you already know you won’t make good on your resolution. You realize things will go down hill the minute you make the oven-banked chicken breast and vegetable meals […]

Have you ever looked at a successful person and wondered if they really earned it or just got lucky? Some levels of success and reward just don’t seem fair. Sure, Jeff Bezos is a smart guy, but does he really deserve to have a net worth of 105 billion dollars? How about the man chasing […]

Chalk this up as one of the worst feelings one can have. You know you could do more with your life. In your imagination, everything works out well — you’re productive, your ideas come to fruition, you get things done. In reality, the opposite is true. That’s the worst part about laziness. You know what […]