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What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?
Why I will never ask my son what he wants to be when he grows up and what I’ll ask him instead.
How I Compared How Others See Me to How I See Myself
The simple “mirror straightening” exercise that helped me better understand how others see me versus how I see myself.
Make Time for Not Urgent But Important Work With “Pre-Fun”
Lack of urgency led to me doing fewer fun and important things, but now I have a new “pre-fun” system that’s working.
The Simple Way to Get More of What You Really Want
What happens when you get in the habit of asking yourself “What for?” and “What instead?” before acting.
The Optimal Level of Difficulty for Life is Radically Moderate
There is an optimally efficient slope for climbing a mountain, so is there also an optimal level of difficulty for the “climb” of life?
Ideas For Taking Your Life in Extraordinary Directions
A thought-provoking collection of ideas for shaking up your status quo and taking life in extraordinary directions.
Time to Give Yourself a Reality Check? Consider This
Every year I give myself a reality check that straightens the deluded stories I tend to tell myself. Here’s how.
Why Don’t We Walk Barefoot More Often?
Barefoot walking is toughening, sensational, super cool-ing, biologically sound, and fun. Plus is saves money on socks and shoes.
Ranking The Year’s 15 “Best” Self-Help Trends
The ultimate power rankings of the best, hottest, most life-changing trends to hit the self-help world this past year.
Delayed Gratification Is Overrated: The Untold Marshmallow Story
The surprising story from the famous Stanford marshmallow experiments that changed my thinking about delayed gratification.
Time for a “Funth”: A Month Challenge to Have More Fun
My plans for my “funth”, during which I will push myself to avoid everything boring and serious and have more fun.
Innate by Kevin Mitchell: Implications on My Clone Army
Summarizing Kevin Mitchell’s book, Innate, and applying what he teaches to questions about what my clone army would look like.
The Right and Wrong Way to Find Your Unique Path in Life
How to find your path in your life by affording patience to explore the extraordinary (APEX)—and mistakes to avoid.
Be Smarter About Finding Your Career Fit
You’ll spend 80,000 hours working, so not systematically seeking a career fit for your unique profile is a devastating mistake.
The Most Important Thing You Can Afford Is Patience
To live your “dream life” optimize your finances not for retirement, real estate, or rhinoplasty but to afford oodles of patience.
Capture the Vibes of Your Next Trip With a Family Rap Video
How we created a family rap video on a recent trip to immortalize it, have fun, and bond—and the easy steps you can follow to do the same.
How to Cultivate Your Values with the Content You Consume
Why I converted from doubtful skeptic about the value of the information I consume into a disciple of my new “info-ligion,” Flip-Flopism.
How to Get the Advice You Need But Don’t Want to Hear
I came up with a workaround to filter out bad advice and get the good advice I need the most but don’t want to hear.
10 “Time Bombs” to Challenge You to Spend Your Time Better
10 rapid-fire challenges that push you to spend your time better.
Make Your Dream Life Desirably Difficult
If you could easily afford whatever you wanted, what kind of difficulty would you pursue? That’s your desirably difficult dream life.
Life Whacks: The Ways We Make Life Unnecessarily Difficult
Life whacks are the opposite of life hacks: they make life harder than it needs to be. What are yours? And can you eliminate them?
A Short Stay in Hell’ Made Me Rethink My Shorter Stay in Non-Hell
‘A Short Stay in Hell’ by Steven Peck challenged me to rethink my approach to my much shorter stay in non-hell, aka life.
How to Be Useful: Easy to Do, Hard to Accept
The most surefire way to be useful and lead a fulfilling life is one you probably already know but don’t want to prioritize.
Comfort Zone Challenges You’ll Be Glad You Tried
Here’s a hodgepodge of challenges that your comfort zone definitely does not want you to read, but that are good for it in the long run.
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