Is what you did today representative of how you want to live? Lifestyle design is the counterpart to focusing on achievement. Completing goals asks you what you want to accomplish. Lifestyle design asks you what experiences you want to have. How you want to live, instead of what you own. I believe the best way […]
Archives for November 2007
Making Money From Blogging
I’ve received a number of e-mails from other bloggers asking about how to build a successful blog and make money online. My short answer is that I’m still figuring that out but I have plenty of friends who seem to have found the answer. The long answer is that I have been able to draw […]
How to Teach Yourself Anything in Less Than Three Months
Listen to this article Self-education can be wonderful and frustrating at the same time. If you go about it correctly, you can teach yourself anything in just a few months. Poorly applied, however, self-education can be a stressful nightmare. I’d like to share my tips to achieve the former and avoid the latter. My self-education […]
How to Debug Your Brain
Intelligence is the ability to predict. Learning is taking the results of past predictions and applying it to future predictions. Stupidity is ignoring the results that don’t match your predictions. Therefore, it seems there are a lot of stupid people. I’m always amazed at how passionately attached people can become to a political ideology. Capitalists […]
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