Advanced Social Skills Training for Top Performers
On a recent episode of Fan Mail Friday, I read a letter from Dev, one of our listeners, who’s dealing with a really interesting problem. In college, he became super close with two guys. One became his roommate, and they all joined the same frat, but… I kept working on my personal growth and had […]
Everyone has a storyteller inside them, and everyone has a story to tell. James Joyce once said he never met an uninteresting person. The difference between people who seem interesting and people who don’t is their ability to turn their experiences into compelling stories — which is why we make storytelling such a big part […]
Anaïs Nin, echoing some ancient wisdom, wrote that “we don’t see things as they are; we see them as we are.” True story. The idea that the world is just a reflection of our own thoughts, memories, and experiences — our “stories” — is one of the most useful insights into happiness, success, and self-development. […]
For many of us, decorating an apartment feels more like a chore than an opportunity. Moving into a new place means an obligatory trip to IKEA, rounded out by a few impulse purchases on Amazon. A couple years later, we swap out the sheets and repaint the walls, and slowly accumulate books, bedding and DVDs, […]
This is the first in our series about email productivity. Be sure to check out what we have to say about creating killer email templates and making your email pop. I have a love-hate relationship with email. On one hand, I love that I just need to waggle my fingers to get pretty much anything […]
Modern science tells us how we can exercise less and eat more to naturally lose weight, avoid diabetes, and beat the obesity epidemic. “You don’t cure diseases through starvation.” -Jonathan Bailor The Cheat Sheet: Is sugar more dangerous than cigarettes? Why are there as many overweight people today as there were total people alive a […]
Author George R.R. Martin once wrote that “a reader lives a thousand lives before he dies,” while “the man who never reads lives only one.” Other luminaries who have lived a thousand lives include SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who believes that reading is the fastest way to learn. The members of Chromeo spend […]
It was 7 AM, and I had been up all night tiptoeing around shampoo bottles, socks, hair clips and electronics. I was sorting my belongings, and the piles of things I planned to donate to charity dwarfed the ones that would make it back into my closets and drawers. I would discard my beloved TI-89 […]
Tragedy is not a choice; learning how to thrive in its aftermath is. “When you get thrown out of a car going 80, you usually leave a little bit of skin on the pavement.” -Cole Hatter The Cheat Sheet: How can you ensure that tragedy creates rather than conquers? You don’t have to give up […]
A few years ago I quit my dream job when I realized it didn’t fit my true personality. I left without a plan and broke the news to my family. “So marry rich,” said my mother, only half-kidding. My father, on the other hand, immediately pointed out that I needed a new full-time job to […]
