Do Extraordinary Things
Pick a category to explore fresh ideas for engineering your extraordinariness:
All-Rounders To Start With
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.
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.
The Physics of Expanding Your Comfort Zone
How the forces of reality and complacency make it challenging to expand your comfort zone into your theoretical potential.
Core Self
Purpose, Personality, Productivity, Mindset
These articles will help you straighten out your self-perception and get you bushwhacking in a rewarding direction.
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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.
How to Find Your (Not-So-)Superpower
My childhood dreams of finding my superpower finally came true thanks to an elegant formula and a new sidekick.
Pursue a Life of Perpetually Perfect Days
Why you should squeeze “perpetual” into the question, “What’s your perfect day?” and how to work toward it.
Adventures
New Challenges and Experiences
These articles will give you ideas and inspiration for spicing up the story of your life.
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How to Travel To Change Who You Are
How to travel in an unforgettable and transformative way, using one of my favorite travel stories as an example.
Creative and Fun Monthly Challenge Ideas
You won’t find these monthly challenge ideas for your health, finances, relationships, well-being, and more anywhere else.
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.
Thinking
Learning, Knowledge Management, Creativity, Psychology
These articles will help you improve your information diet, then process and use it well.
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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 I Overcame Information Overload, a.k.a. Mental Diabetes
How I overcame information overload, a.k.a diabetes of the mind, plus practical tips.
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.
Physical Fitness
Diet and Movement
These articles will help you make working out not feel like a job and eating well not be so hard to swallow.
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The Ultimate Long-Term Fitness Goal Is To Be an “Old-lympian”
Why training to become an “Old-lympian” is the best long-term fitness goal to motivate you to make the best decisions.
Replace Your Fitness Routine With a Fitness Lifestyle
Rather than grind through your fitness routine, consider these strategies for creating an enjoyable fitness lifestyle.
What to Expect From a 3-Day Fast If You’ve Never Fasted Before
If you’re considering a 3-day fast but have never fasted before, here are some lessons and experiences to prepare for so you don’t learn them the hard way.
Relationships
Social Skills, Love Life, Parenting, Friendship
These articles will help you get better at connecting with cool people and dealing with uncool ones.
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What’s It Like Being a Dad? Objectively Worse
When people ask me, “What’s it like being a dad?” I normally lie. But if you really want the truth, here it is.
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).
How to Pick Gifts Even Better Than Santa Using Science
Easy, fun, and scientifically-proven tips for how to pick gifts that you’ll be proud to give and they’ll truly treasure.
Career and Finances
Finding Work, Working Well, Making Money, Managing Money
These articles can help you find work you’d do for no money and have enough money to enjoy life.
Top Picks
Suck at Making Money? Maybe It’s Your Personality
Despite my efforts to get better, I’ve always sucked at making money. Now, based on personality research, I think it may be my wiring.
If You Can’t Find a Job You Love, Ask Yourself These Questions
Try asking yourself this 4-part framework’s series of questions to narrow down your career choices and potentially find a job you love.
Pretirement: When Early Retirement Isn’t Early Enough
I was too young and too unwealthy to retire, so I “pretired” instead. This is my pretirement story.
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