The Easiest Way to Make a Great First Impression
By focusing on these three habits you can enter new situations with confidence and build trust right away.
View ArticleHow to Be More Productive by Working Less
Solving problems is like food for your mind. It makes your mind happy. It makes it feel important and worthy and capable—all things directly linked to happiness.
View ArticleHow ‘Deep Work’ Expert & Author Cal Newport Gets His Writing Done
If you have seen recent references to the concept of "deep work," you have author Cal Newport to thank for it.
View ArticleA List Of 30 Day Challenges You Can Start Today
Here's a list of 30 day challenges I think are interesting.
View ArticleA Guide to Developing the Self-Discipline Habit
Don’t be afraid to connect with others in a vulnerable way.
View ArticleDevelop Resiliency: How to Move Towards Your Fears
Fear is the place where you’ll grow. It’s where you’ll learn, and love, and connect, and become free of all your old limitations.
View ArticleHappy Is the New Rich, and Six Other Lessons for Living a Good Life
Focus on appreciation over accumulation.
View ArticleFive Zen Principles to Live By
No matter what happens in your life you must keep doing your task.
View ArticleThe Note-Taking Habits of Highly Successful People
Want to know one common habit among successful people? They get things out of their head and down on paper.
View ArticleHow to Use Deliberate Practice to Reach the Top 1 Percent of Your Field
Deliberate practice is very much in vogue in the learning community, but how can we harness it to reach our goals?
View ArticleWhy Successful People Spend 10 Hours A Week On ‘Compound Time’
Warren Buffett, Albert Einstein, Oprah Winfrey all do this one thing outside their to-do-lists everyday
View ArticleI Haven’t Cussed in Five Years—My Willpower Has Skyrocketed
“No person is free who is not master of themselves.” — Epictetus I’ve tried a number of multi-year experiments to boost my willpower: giving up coffee and alcohol running 10k every day taking cold...
View Article10 Habits of Happy People You Can Adopt Now
There was an old children’s song that defines happiness in many ways. Most of the definitions given there were about finding pleasure and satisfaction in the simple things you love indulging in. The...
View ArticleWhy I Go Offline for 12 Straight Hours Each Day
I go offline from 8pm – 8am every day. This means that I disconnect from email, social media, and internet for 12 consecutive hours each day. This habit initially started with avoiding email first...
View ArticleThis Is How to Stop Checking Your Phone: Five Secrets From Research
How long do you think the average work email goes unread? 10 minutes? 5 minutes? 1 minute? Try 6 seconds. From Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked: In...
View ArticleWhy Being Ego-Free Might Be the Key to Leadership
In a moment of ego, I was checking an airport bookstore to see if they had a copy of my book Ego is the Enemy (and if they did, how prominently were they displaying it? These are the questions authors...
View ArticleYou Can’t Fail if You Know Where You’re Going
Have you ever watched “The Joy of Painting”? Every episode of the show is available here on YouTube if not. Growing up, Bob Ross was an inescapable fixture in the Mendelson home. My oldest brother,...
View ArticleHere’s How Some of the World’s Great Writers Begin Their Workdays
Writing Routines is close look at the craft of writing, through the eyes of its very best practitioners. Sign up to download our free guide “12 Essential Writing Routines To Help You To Craft Your...
View ArticleHow a Pulitzer-Prize Winning Novelist Thinks About Coffee, Screenplays and...
Viet Thanh Nguyen. This past week, Viet Thanh Nguyen was announced as one of the winners of this year’s MacArthur “Genius” Grants. It is the latest honor in a career that has taken Nguyen from writing...
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