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The 3 levers of productivity
We all want to be productive — but what makes up productivity, being at your best and feeling at your peak? These are the three levels of productivity. → Read More
Against seriousness: On avoiding close-mindedness
You can be mature while still retaining your ability to keep an open mind. Seriousness, by default, is rigid and closed-minded. → Read More
The problem with habits
If you want to inspire a new behavior, build a punishment and reward system to guide it into existence. Reinforce the benefit associated with said behavior. → Read More
The difficulty of becoming who you are
We have innate need to satisfy the requirements of survival, but also have a deeper desire to make something of ourselves beyond that so we can thrive. → Read More
Target the negative, ignore the positive
Just because there are fewer ways to succeed doesn’t mean everybody succeeds in exactly the same way because success itself has many different sides. → Read More
Beat the competition without competing
You never know when the tides are going to turn, and it’s better to limit downside than it is to inspire warm and soft feelings like hope and beauty. → Read More
The future belongs to polymaths
Nothing exists independently of its surroundings and that fact doesn’t change just because we decide to be blind to it with narrowed disciplines. → Read More
Mystery: The greatest advantage in a world of noise?
Knowledge, or the ability to think interesting and novel things, is an expression of individuality, and it doesn’t focus on short-term competition. → Read More
Is success a product of luck or agency?
Your life is a fight against time, and it may beat you. When it does, it may be so difficult that you will always stay chained to the ground. → Read More
Happiness: Acceptance or absence of suffering?
What if life is just a game of taking stored sensations and projecting them onto that strange, nebulous thing we call happiness? → Read More
Status independence and mastering social stress
In our modern world, two things have happened: The first is that we are globally connected, which means that the hierarchy is far more extreme. → Read More
The most important skill of the 21st century
If we don’t effectively use our tools, our tools end up using us. In the 21st century, the difference will be determined by how we manage information. → Read More
Human relationships and projecting aliveness
We don’t think of our daily relationships with other people as being therapeutic, but in many ways, they are, and Freud may have been wrong. → Read More
Don't call it networking
Networking is beyond a buzzword. It almost carries a negative connotation. Formalizing human connection often has the opposite effect than the one intended. → Read More
The Shaper Effect: balancing opposites
There is a similar story about Steve Jobs. There are countless incidents recounted by people who worked with him about his maniac focus on tiny details. → Read More
The principles of a life strategy
We all want to be more effective in reaching our potential, and the use of business principles to design a life strategy shows us how we can do it. → Read More
Dealing with the mysterious
The most important question in life may well be: How do we deal with the mysterious? The best answer, however, doesn’t try to explain the mysterious away. → Read More
Pablo Picasso: harnessing willpower
There are elements of Picasso’s life that show us how willpower works. If you have any kind of long-term goals, willpower matters. → Read More
Change your life the easy way
Change is hard. It requires you to be deliberate in your focus towards your goals. Even then, without the right tactics, such efforts can be pointless. → Read More
The luckiest man on earth
Gratitude is one solution, and it’s a cost-free one. It shifts the weight from the noisiness of all of the negative to the often neglected positive. → Read More