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How to Live a Meaningful Life on Your Own Terms
Seven guidelines to follow when you’re feeling stuck and wondering how to life a meaningful life.
The New Self-Actualization Model Replacing Maslow’s Pyramid
A new model for how to achieve self-actualization is replacing Maslow’s pyramid. And it goes beyond self-actualization.
Take Control of Your Life’s Story: The 4-Step Guide
How to take control of your life’s story to make it something memorable by applying the timeless principles of storytelling.
8 Reasons Lifelogging Is Worth Your Time (Plus Tips)
The life-enhancing benefits you too might experience if you start lifelogging (keeping track of everything you do), plus tips on how to start.
25 Increasingly Risky New Things to Try
Feeling stuck in a rut? Explore these new things to try, from eating with your hands to taping your mouth at night, to shake things up and improve your life.
Stop Nagging (But Still Get Your Way) with W.A.R.T.
How to stop nagging but still get what you want with the simple, 4-step W.A.R.T. Technique: Wait, Agree, Remind, and Thank.
The Step-by-Step Approach to Actually Change Someone’s Mind
How to actually change someone’s mind using proven psychological and negotiation techniques (and patience).
15 Books That Changed My Thinking on 15 Important Topics
Books that change your thinking are sledgehammers that tear down old beliefs and help you build new ones. Here are 15 that did so for me.
You’re Bad at Arguing Because You Debate Like a Neanderthal
The trick to knowing how to win and argument is to be aware of our neanderthal-ian instincts and then do the opposite.
How to Be Extraordinary: The 7 Childishly Simple Rules
How to be extraordinary: 1. Play your game. 2. Know your goals. 3. Look around. 4. Decide. 5. Listen. 6. Make mistakes. 7. Keep moving.
Don’t Believe Everything You Read on the Internet (Here’s How)
How to hone your BS detector so you don’t believe everything you read on the internet, just as you learned not to take candy from strangers.
Quit the News? 15 Thought Experiments That May Change Your Mind
Try these 15 thought experiments to decide for yourself whether you should quit the news, consume less of it, or start following it more.
How to Take a Career Break: 8 Steps to Break Through
Fed up with work, feeling unfulfilled, and thinking of taking a career break? Here are 8 steps to follow to make your break a breakthrough.
How to Wipe After Peeing? Maybe It’s Time We Rethink Things
How much toilet paper is enough for wiping after peeing? What’s the cleanest, quickest, most conscientious way? Let’s find the answer.
How Many Bugs Do We Eat a Year? The True Answer
Let’s do some quick calculations to answer, “How many bugs do we eat a year?” Is it really 1-to-2 pounds, or people are bugging out?
11 Practical Ways to Keep an Open Mind
Incorporate some of these best practices into your life to keep an open mind and prevent the onset of “wis-dumb.”
How to Open Your Mind: 9 Quick Exercises to Try Today
Try these exercises that show you how to be more open-minded because, “Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.”
How to Release Your Limiting Identities and Accelerate
You can take off if you find and release your limiting identities like handbrakes, rather than try to grind through them with willpower.
Massage Tips & Techniques: Simple Tricks That Work Surprisingly Well
Tips and techniques we learned from an expert for how to give our partners surprisingly good massages.
Natural Outdoor Workouts: A Comprehensive Beginner’s Guide
An easy-to-follow and comprehensive 4-step guide to how to get started with natural outdoor workouts, the whole food diet of exercise.
Why Fast? Prolonged Fasting’s Surprising Benefits and Disadvantages
15 surprising reasons to fast (and 9 reasons not to) to consider if the the long-term benefits of prolonged fasting aren’t compelling enough.
The Simple Gratitude Habit That Saved Our Relationship
The surprising ways that introducing a daily gratitude practice in our relationship saved it from falling apart.
Relationship Hacks: 19 Unconventional but Proven Tricks to Try
10 surprisingly simple and unique relationship hacks that have rescued our relationship, plus 9 top love life savers from around the web.
The Five Love Languages Summary for Unsappy People
The simple, unsappy summary of the five Love Languages by Gary Chapman, and how to use them to improve your relationship.
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