Revealed: Why you can’t achieve your top 5 goals.
“Write down 20 goals you have. Now mark your top 5. Scrap the remaining 15 goals because you’re going to just focus on the top 5!” – Random Guru If life was a genie, it’d give you 1 wish, not 3. Because people negate their first wish with their 2nd or 3rd wish. This advice […]
Checkout lines, Sierra Games, and how striving for more can bring failure.
You need to change course and direction if you’re going to hit your goals! – Random Guru While striving towards goals does involve being a bit off course a lot of the time, if you’re changing strategies too frequently to try to level up, it could actually cause failure. The guy at the grocery store […]
Gary Vee’s Premium on Irreversible Decisions
“Thinking of going to college or taking a trip around the world? College can wait. Travel the world!” – Gary Vee Gary is probably right about most things. However, there’s 2 biases that are in play with his advice. Tell me what I want to hear bias (eg Confirmation Bias): The bias to want to […]
Thinking about what spending a dollar truly does
Jeff Bezos spends money better than you or I do. When we spend money, we’re basically influencing what someone else does with their time. There are certain tasks that are better for humanity than others, one would argue having someone spend their time to build a house, or cook a meal, is more valuable than […]
Work hard, play hard, finally decoded correctly.
“Stop playing those games and get to work!” – Alex Becker. Becker will have you working non-stop, ignoring all your friends, and so on. For him, it works. But for many of us, we can find success by working hard and playing hard. People misinterpret that statement all the time. Here’s a good way for […]
Mindset is only a permission slip.
“Work on your mindset everyday!” the gurus will scream. But really, your mindset is just a permission slip that grants you the ability to move forward. Granted, the real reason why people don’t move forward more is often mindset. But you can’t preach mindset advice to prisoners of war or to people that are slaves […]
Solving problems using the Onion Skin Method.
In a different post, I mention that finding more problems is often strangely the solution. However, another way to go about that idea is to consider whether you’d like to solve a problem or eliminate a problem by making the problem irrelevant. There’s usually an easier way to handle a problem, and it’s by noticing […]
Happiness vs Success and the deception of the 10 year goal
Gurus are always trying to tout that if you’re successful, you’ll be happy. The reality is these things don’t always coexist. We’ve seen many “successful” people kill themselves either intentionally or not (ie drug overdoses). The data is in: Being successful financially doesn’t equate to happiness. Gary Vee is always talking about “don’t you want […]
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I follow business leaders, gurus, and philosophers and note things others missed that I’ve found valuable.
This site is my precious treasure chest of ideas on business, philosophy and life. And hopefully during your pillaging here, you get your mind blown.
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!