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The GOAT Life
In a theater of a million yous who’ve lived a million lives, which one gets the loudest ovation?
Your Purpose Is Not for Hanging Laundry (Plug It In)
How extraordinary things start happening when you finally figure out how to plug your purpose into real life.
Forget Master Plans, Follow Stepping Stones
Extraordinary lives aren’t built on perfect plans but by hopping into uncertainty one intentional stepping stone at a time.
The 16-Word Focus Line that Stopped My Scattered Effort
How I distilled my story into a single anti-entropy sentence, my “Focus Line.”
A 3-Part Recipe for Core Memories With Friends
The case for fewer coffee catch-ups with friends, and more time adventuring and capturing those core memories.
A Call to End Conformity Waste With Human Uniqueness Engineering
Society wastes trillions in potential. This is a call for Human Uniqueness Engineering to systematically unleash our true contributions and fulfillment.
Forget Infinite Potential, Find Your Inner Species
Harness the part of you that cannot change – its strengths, needs, traits, and instincts – to unleash your true potential.
Slingshot Yourself Through Life, One Quarter at a Time
Using focused intention, like pulling back a slingshot, to shoot yourself along with less effort, more effectiveness.
Brainwash Yourself Into Living a Better Story
Your life story will likely be unfulfilling unless you consciously craft an inspiring and exciting one with some proactive self-brainwashing.
Try This to Get Advice from Your 95-Year-Old Future Self
The exercise I created that helped me get my future self’s fresh, actionable advice for overcoming my biggest challenge.
Why Just Being True to Your Values Isn’t Enough
“Values” have been reduced to a buzzword, but value alignment is too important, and too complex, to leave to gut instinct.
When Lost, Ask Your 95-Year-Old Self
Unsure what to do with your life? Start by understanding your 95-year-old self’s definition of extraordinary, then building systematically.
5 Steps to a Brutally Honest AI-Assisted Annual Review
The specific inputs, custom instructions, and nine prompts I gave AI to overcome self-deception in my annual review.
My Brutal, AI-Enhanced Annual Review
Why self-reflection fails and how AI-enhanced objective examination can reveal uncomfortable truths to improve your life.
What Goals to Focus On: A Strategic Approach
How to understand your cravings and choose goals that leave you feeling energized, fulfilled, and hungry for more.
The Problem With Your Rational Decision Making
The story of how I learned the incalculable cost of being too rational and how to practice rational irrationality instead.
How to Read a Book Better Without Reading It (Using AI)
Discover how to use AI to learn from any book without reading it cover-to-cover, guided by insights from the classic ‘How to Read a Book’.
Impatience and Patience Are Complements, Not Opposites
A new model from researcher Kate Sweeny proposes strategies to develop patience that makes your impatience a positive.
I’m Heading Somewhere Exciting – Wanna Join?
Things are about to get more extraordinary—personally and professionally—and I’m looking for company.
The Space Cadet’s Guide to an Extraordinary Life
How approaching life like an astronaut with a crappy co-pilot can help you blast off and systematically explore a truly extraordinary life.
No More Brain Clickbait: Change The Stories You Tell Yourself
Your brain is an trashy tabloid writer. Here’s how to refocus your attention to change the stories you tell yourself—and control your life’s narrative.
How I Improved My Learning to Outsmart My Brain
To stop losing knowledge to my brain’s inner saboteur, I started treating my brain like a company and overhauled my learning systems.
How to Savor Nostalgia Now, Not Later
How to strap the angel of your 90-year-old self onto your shoulders to savor the moments they’ll feel nostalgic about.
The Suck: The Two-Headed Source of Your Obstacles in Life
The first step to overcoming the endless barrage of obstacles in life is to identify where they are coming from.
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