A Truly Productive Life Shouldn’t Feel Like Work
Don't waste energy figuring out how to live a productive life. Ask yourself how to tune into your innate values, passions, and talents.
Why I Changed My Life’s Guiding Principle
I ignored my old guiding principle, trusted my instincts instead, and now have a new and improved heuristic for directing my life's decisions.
$526,000 a Year for the Intangibles That Make You Happy?
If we add up all the studies that put a price tag on the intangible sources of happiness, it's a lot—but is it enough?
Is Where You Live a Home Field (Dis-)Advantage?
Winning at life can be easy or darn near impossible depending on whether you optimize the field you play on (i.e, where you live).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.