Category Archives for "Success"

Anyone who guarantees success is a charlatan. But, there are traits you can adopt that dramatically increase your odds of being successful. That’s what you want, better odds. And if you embody these traits, your odds will be so high that on a long enough time scale success is likely. People of all races, genders, […]

Here is the self-help guru everyone hates. He’s a white man, 6 foot 3, and good looking. He has a high IQ, comes from an upper-middle-class family, and graduated from an elite university. After writing one article, he goes viral, and builds an entire career from a random moment of success, telling you how you […]

How’s that for a gaudy headline? Look, if you know how to properly study self-improvement you have the cheat code to life itself. Sometimes, I sit back and think, “I can’t believe people don’t know this stuff.” All the answers to everything you’d ever want to know are right in front of you, but most […]

You are not nice to yourself. Think about the cumulative effect of all the negative things you’ve told yourself about yourself. Even for relatively happy, normal, well-adjusted people, it’s almost impossible to turn off that voice that tells you you’re not good enough. The iron of it? We think about ourselves, constantly, all the time, […]

Two nights ago I watched the new documentary series about Michael Jordan and the 97-98 Chicago bulls team. I saw a tweet that summed up MJ perfectly: “He just made you want to be great.” When you see someone operating at the highest level it gives you a true sense of joy. I felt strangely […]

Is self-improvement a total fraud? I saw this Geico commercial the other night that made me laugh. It also pointed out a brutal truth about the self-improvement industry. “Can Geico save you 15 percent or more on car insurance?” “Is Pinocchio a terrible motivational speaker?” It cuts to Pinocchio giving a seminar. Each time he […]

I know one undeniable fact about you. I know a fact about you that you can’t dispute no matter how hard you try. Regardless of who you are, what you look like, where you’re from, or what you do, I’m certain about one thing. It’s because of this reason that I’m able to make a […]

Allow me to describe your life for you. I’m going to take a shot in the dark and guess you live in Western Civilization. You don’t live in a third world country. You don’t have to worry about where your next meal will come from. You’re not at risk of dying from diarrhea. You have […]

“Work at your job and make a living. Work on yourself and make a fortune” – Jim Rohn Self-improvement is the cheat code to life. Once you understand it at a deep level, the entire universe opens up to you. No, reading self-help books won’t magically turn you into a millionaire, but it’s not a […]

“It won’t be much, but I could start paying you.” Roughly four years ago, these were the words I heard from Lance, an editor I was working with at Thought Catalog. I’d been writing for the website for a while. The company decided to give Lance a freelance budget to start paying some of the […]