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“You’re an enigma,” he told me. I was sitting in the office with one of my marketing professors in college, trying to convince him to let me pass his class with a C. We made a deal that if I did well on the last group assignment for the year, he’d let me pass. He […]

Nothing but green. After I made my first initial deposit into my Robinhood investing account, I saw nothing but green. I didn’t have much money in there, but it felt good to see the percentage increase day by day, and most importantly to see green. Just seeing that color has a psychological pull on you. […]

I get it. Changing your life isn’t easy in and of itself. Changing your life in the midst of historically bad times makes the process even more difficult. To pretend that some pieces of self-help wisdom will automatically pull you out of your mental state is foolish. Here’s the way I look at it. Negative […]

There are two types of people in this world. There are people who focus on the way the world should work and there are people who focus on the way the world actually works. Those who focus on the way the world should work often find themselves suffering for it. They ignore human nature and […]

We adopt societal scripts that make us feel uneasy with the idea of being successful. You’re made to feel like Monty Burns from the Simpsons if you want to live what, in your opinion, is an above-average lifestyle. There’s a certain level of guilt associated with trying to achieve your long-term goals. Underneath that guilt, […]

About 30 is when you realize your parents will die. It starts to hit them, too. In the past few years, I’m 31, I’ve started to have more frank conversations with my parents. I started to see them in totality, including their flaws. I started to see some of the results of the things they […]

Some employees at Random House Publishing asked the company not to publish Jordan Peterson’s new book. Apparently, several employees broke down crying. One employee had this to say about Peterson: “He is an icon of hate speech and transphobia and the fact that he’s an icon of white supremacy, regardless of the content of his […]

Have you ever noticed that when you’re a little bit too eager to get a result, that result eludes you? You need to have the desire for an outcome to put in the effort to try to achieve it, but if you force the situation too much,  you won’t get what you want. Or you […]

The questions you ask yourself determine the answers you get. The answers you get determine the decisions you make. The decisions you make combined with the circumstances you start from create the life you have now. As Socrates said: “The unexamined life is not worth living.” So, examine your life. Don’t just let life happen to […]

We’ve all been through this scenario before. I call it the habit death spiral. You’re in the process of trying to form good habits, reach a long-term goal, and/or maintain the good habits you already do have. Things have been going well for a while until you reach that fateful day. Diet and exercise is […]