Expert Tricks and Tactics for Being a Better Active Listener
My favorite tips and tricks on how to be a better active listener that I learned from reading You're Not Listening, by Kate Murphy.
What You Learn if You Stop Listening to Podcasts
The lessons I learned when I stopped listening to podcasts for a month.
How to Stop Justifying Yourself and Start Living in Reality
Lying to yourself and making excuses turns you into an easily-offended, deluded drain on society. Here's how to stop.
Self-Justification: Examples of the 4-Step Psychological Vortex
Self-justification is your over-protective mother of an ego coddling your feeble, fragile identity. Here's how it works, with examples.
How to Find Your False Growth Mindsets and Un-Fix Them
A quick quiz, cheat sheet, and refresher on how to separate a false growth mindset from a real one and be less fixed-minded.
The Inner Game of Tennis’ Strategies for Playing Out of Your Mind
Summary of the strategies I learned from Timothy Gallwey's book, The Inner Game of Tennis, to silence my mind and get better faster.
The Rare Few Truly Life-Changing Personal Development Blogs
The golden few personal development blogs that have successfully inspired me to take action and made my life better.
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.
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.