Why achieving goals has nothing to do with motivation.
Gurus will have you believe that the reason you’re not accomplishing all your goals is that you’re not motivated enough. As you may guess, this is only half true, and mostly garbage. The reason why people don’t achieve goals is they don’t know what it takes to achieve them. – Truth Cake What this means […]
Why just pursuing your goals can be a bad approach.
People think about pursuing goals, or pursuing a mate and so on. It can also be far more effective to attract your goals. You can either figure out the right things to say when pursuing a mate, or you can work on yourself such that a mate will want to find the right things to […]
How efficiency secretly destroys growth.
“If I only had an hour to chop down a tree, I would spend the first 45 minutes sharpening my axe.” – Abraham Lincoln. This is garbage advice for most people. Also, it’s likely that Lincoln never said this nonsense either. The underlying framework here is to “make sure everything is perfect and then start,” and […]
The reality behind why gurus think people are lazy and how to solve it.
Figuring out what you’re willing to “give up” to achieve your goals can be misleading. It’s typical guru advice to think about what your goals are and then consider what you have to change or give up in order to meet those goals. This is actually close to being good advice, but needs a slight […]
The unseen downside of the best solution.
Meeting your objective sometimes doesn’t make you good. I’ve mentioned in many other articles that practice isn’t helping you get better, and how solutions that can’t be executed properly aren’t solutions. This time I’m talking about when a solution causes a new problem and seldom do people think about their perfect execution of a solution […]
Why only doing your best is terrible advice on its own.
“Do your best!” – Random guru. Good advice turns into bad advice when it’s incomplete. And this piece of advice is very incomplete. You need to do your best within a specific time frame. You’re better every new day, therefore, your best work is always tomorrow. If you wait until tomorrow, obviously, nothing ever happens […]
Quitting: The forgotten method for solving problems.
“Never ever quit!” – Random guru… I’ve discussed in the article on Shiny Object Syndrome being beneficial and knowing when to quit. However, another important point is when to ‘quit’ your environment. You can quit anything if you try hard enough. – Truth Cake Sometimes you’ll see people struggle with trying to solve their relationships […]
Practice probably isn’t making you better.
Tom Bilyeu, the co-founder of Quest Nutrition, believes with practice that you will always improve with time. You won’t. For tasks where you don’t know what you’re doing wrong, practicing will just make you consistent, not better. Tom is a fantastic guru in general and many times practice DOES make us better like Tom says, […]
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I follow business leaders, gurus, and philosophers and note things others missed that I’ve found valuable.
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My life’s goals are to show people why Fahrenheit is evil, help summarize the human knowledge base, dispel self improvement myths, and achieve a resultant and unrelenting state of 24/7 euphoria. Follow along on my journey!