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• Games Worth Playing

• Richard Feynman on Self-Doubt and Meeting Others’ Expectations
• I’m 30
• On Keeping Your Word
• How Good Is Your Theory?
• Book Club: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (August 2018)

• What’s Your Life Strategy?
• How to Memorize a Speech
• The Complete Guide to Increasing Your Focus
• How to Be Nice (Without Being a Pushover)

• Book Club: The Wizard And The Prophet (June 2018)
• Read my articles on WeChat now!
• Seven Biographies You Should Read to Live a Better, Richer and Happier Life
• I Got Married!

• How to Learn Social Skills
• Book Club: The Selfish Gene (May 2018)
• Lesson One: What most people get wrong about effective learning

• Book Club: The Enigma of Reason (April 2018)
• How to Commit to Long-Term Goals
• The Art of Unlearning
• How to Commit to the Things You Start

• Book Club: Tao Te Ching (March 2018)
• You Probably Have Too Much Motivation
• How Successful Was the MIT Challenge?
• Book Club: The Elephant In The Brain (February 2018)

• Lesson One: How much of your career is running to stay in the same spot?
• Further Notes on “Rethinking Discipline”
• Rethinking Discipline

• Set Goals in the Middle
• Book Club: Seeing Like A State (January 2018)
• How Much Faster Can You Learn?
• What’s Next?
• Choose Your Signal Wisely

• Book Club: Godel, Escher, Bach (December 2017)
• Discovering the Meta
• Book Club: Average Is Over (November 2017)
• Know Your Competition

• Are Successful People Just Putting in More Effort?
• How Much Can You Possibly Learn?
• Is Reading Blogs Like This One Keeping You From Improving Your Life?

• Is the Brain Like a Muscle? Lessons from Debunking a Seductive, But Incorrect, Idea
• Book Club: Don’t Sleep There Are Snakes (October 2017)
• Help Me Research My Next Book
• Cultivating the Skill of Figuring Things Out
• How Ben Franklin Learned to Write Persuasively

• Book Club: Predictably Irrational (September 2017)
• Lesson One: How to finally stop feeling stressed and guilty
• Is Learning Extra Languages Worth the Hassle?

• Book Club: Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman (August 2017)
• I’m 29
• Why You Should Be More Extreme
• Two Kinds of Difficulty
• Book Club: Sapiens, A Brief History of Humankind (July 2017)

• Lesson #1: Capital Trumps Courage
• You Should Have More Spectacular Failures
• Gri-Gri, Money and Bootstrapped Truths

• Book Club: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (June 2017)
• Do You Need Self-Discipline to Have Fun?
• How Much Do You Really Understand?
• The Essential Education: If You Had Ten Years to Learn Anything, What Would You Do?

• Multiply or Add?
• Book Club: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (June 2017)
• New Project: Level Up Korean with Five Hours Per Week
• Should You Listen to Music While Studying, The Pi Model and Learning How to Learn w/ Dr. Barbara Oakley
• Chaos, Ignorance and Newton’s Great Puzzle

• The most common misconception about learning
• Want to Learn History? Read Biographies, Not History Books
• The Problem of Happiness

• Flow Doesn’t Lead to Mastery
• How the Brain Changes with Expertise
• How Einstein Learned Physics

• Some Useful Distinctions When Thinking About Your Career
• Book Review: The Wisdom of Insecurity
• Simplicity Beats Nuance: Why the Wrong Answer Can Often Beat the Correct One
• Should You Set Deadlines for Your Goals?
• What’s More Productive: Counting Hours or Tasks Accomplished?

• Why Most People Get Stuck in Their Careers
• What I’ve Been Reading
• First, See the Circle

• Don’t Be Busy
• What if This Were Your Only Chance?
• What’s Wrong With Just Reading Book Summaries?

• The Hard, But Effective Way to Learn a New Language
• Back to China: Thoughts on Business, Culture and Language Learning in Beijing
• How is Ultralearning Different?
• Advice Reversals

• What Should Your Goals Be?
• Fluency vs Mastery: Can You Be Fluent Without Being Good?
• Should You Try Learning More Than One Thing at a Time?
• How Should I Learn Cognitive Science?

• Learning What Can’t Be Taught
• Three Strategies for Behavior Change
• Lesson #1: An Unusual Approach to Improve Your Ability to Focus

• New Ultralearning Project: Can You Learn to Draw Realistic Portraits in One Month?
• I’m 28
• The Irony of Focus: Why Doing Only One Thing Actually Lets You Do More
• How to Start Your Own Ultralearning Project (Part Two)

• How to Start Your Own Ultralearning Project (Part One)
• Should Learning Be Hard?
• A Simple Strategy for Getting Better at Things

• The Problem with Advice
• How to Read More Books
• How Much Theory Should You Learn for Practical Skills?
• Genes and Free Will

• Should You Learn Fast or Slow?
• What I’ve Been Reading
• Top Performer is Now Open

• What We’ve Learned from Top Performer: Free Lesson Series
• Ultralearning Matters More After Graduation
• What’s the Difference Between Learning an Art and a Science?
• There Are No Hard Subjects, Only Missing Prerequisites
• Ultralearning Case Study: Learning Cognitive Science

• Which Ideas are Overrated?
• With the World’s Knowledge a Click Away, We Spend Our Time Looking at Funny Pictures of Cats
• If You Had 15 Days to Learn Calculus, How Would You Do It?
• Career Planning and the Dao
• How I Became a Full-Time Blogger: Reflections on Ten Years of ScottHYoung.com

• How to Get Great Value from Information Products
• How I Choose Projects
• Are Anti-Vaxxers Rational? More Thoughts on the Power of Copying
• Is Rationality Overrated? What an 18th Century Medical Mystery Can Tell Us About the Power of Blind Copying

• At What Age is it No Longer Okay to Be Bad at Something?
• Deep Work
• Should You Use Deliberate Practice… Or Just Practice?
• What I’ve Been Reading

• The Bicycle Problem: How the Illusion of Explanatory Depth Tricks Your Brain
• How Much Free Will Do You Have?
• Should You Know Your IQ?

• Failures of Intensity
• Getting Better at Figuring Things Out
• What Does it Mean to Work Hard?
• Beware of “Magic Bullet” Thinking

• The Mathematics of Perseverance: The Formula to Help You Decide Whether to Strive or Settle
• Top Performer is Now Open
• How to Be So Good They Can’t Ignore You – Free, Live Webinar with Cal Newport
• If you want to be an author, don’t start writing (and other strangely useful career advice)

• When is it Good To Be a Hypocrite?
• Everyone is Trying to Sell You Something
• Here’s Some Things I’ve Changed My Mind About
• Three Ways to Fix a Stubborn Habit
• How Much Stress Do You Need for Success?

• How I’m Continuing to Learn (and Hopefully Master) Chinese
• I’m 27
• The Two Ways to Evaluate Ideas
• The Isomorphism of Ideas

• Is There Value in Ideas You Can’t Remember?
• Why Focusing Can Often Feel Lazy
• Don’t Be Afraid to Go at Your Own Pace
• Building, Searching and the Algorithm for Finding the Best Spouse

• Learning on Steroids is Open (For the Last Time)
• How to Stop Forgetting What You Read
• I Told My Friend Not to Start a Business. Here’s Why…
• Being Honest with Yourself is Hard

• You Don’t Pay Enough for Information
• How to Build Habits of Moderation
• Should You Accept Your Constraints or Try to Improve Them?
• Why the Smartest People Don’t Always Give the Best Advice: The Importance of Local Wisdom

• My New TEDx Talk: One Simple Method to Learn Any Language
• Are You Trying to Be Too Original? What I Learned About the Value of Imitation from China
• Paradoxical Virtues
• How to Build the Habit of Finishing What You Start

• Why is it So Hard to Create Permanent Habits?
• Which Skills Should You Master?
• Be Bold, Presumptuous and Stop Caring About What Others Think
• Watch us Speak all Four Languages in Three Minutes

• Are There Books You Should Reread Every Year?
• When the Less Efficient Method Gets the Job Done Faster

• Should You Do Intense, Short-Term Projects, or Build Long-Term Habits?
• I Was Wrong About Speed Reading: Here are the Facts
• Watch Me Rap in Korean
• Why You Need Mentors (and Why You Don’t Have Them Yet)

• Should You Maintain an (Almost) Empty Reading Queue?
• Improve Creative Skills by Reducing Degrees of Freedom
• Different Kinds of Difficulty
• Knowing Facts Still Matters (Even in an Age of Wikipedia)
• Two Ways to Think About Career Fulfillment

• Easily Distracted? Use Orienting Tasks While Learning.
• The Fear of Going Soft
• Bias is Inescapable
• Why I’m Skeptical About SRS for Conceptual Subjects
• Make Plans Work on 20% Effort

• Build Your Morning Habits First
• The Stupidity of Cutting Sleep
• How Do You Make a Good Analogy?
• Pick Three Things. Now Do Them Well
• Why do Engineers Think They’ll Be Good at Picking Stocks?
• Is it Better to Review Back or Learn Ahead?
• How I’m Maintaining the Ability to Speak Six Languages
• Why Learn “Useless” Things?

• Choose: Growth or Consistency
• Learning on Steroids is now open
• How to Increase Your Ability to Focus
• Korean Final Update
• Looking Back at a Year (Almost) Without English

• I’m 26
• Seven Principles of Learning Better From Cognitive Science

• Does Speaking Another Language Change How You Think?
• Korean Halfway Update
• How Many Hours of Preparation Do You Need to Learn a Language Abroad?
• Why You’re Probably Not Working as Much as You Think You Are

• Guest Posts I’ve Done About Learning Chinese
• Learning Chinese over 3½ Months | 12-Min Documentary
• How I Plan to Learn Korean Differently than Chinese

• The Danger of Easy Skepticism
• #1000
• How Well Did the No-English Rule Work for Learning Chinese?

• How Much Harder is Learning Chinese Than Spanish?
• The Three-Step Strategy to Study Hard Without Burning Out
• Why Braintraining Games are Silly

• Never Be Too Pleased With Your Past Work
• Learning Portuguese Over 2 Months + 1 Week
• I Was Wrong About China: A First Two Weeks in China (and Chinese)

• My Plan for Learning Chinese Over Three Months

• Don’t Think For Yourself
• Are Blogs Better Than Books for Mastering Complex Ideas?
• Things Worth Knowing Well, Things Worth Knowing Poorly

• Things Worth Knowing, Even Poorly
• Chicken Hearts and Glass Explosions: A First Week in Brazil
• Learning Spanish in 11 Weeks | 10-Min Documentary
• My Spanish After Three Months

• How Do You Learn a New Language, Without Forgetting the Old One?
• Should I Have Done the MIT Challenge Over 4 Years?

• Bold Moves are Often Easier than Small Ones
• How to Learn Boring Subjects
• The 7 Most Common Learner Mistakes
• How I’m Learning Spanish
• You Don’t Need to Be Rich to Travel

• Why You Shouldn’t Learn a Language the Way Children Do
• The Importance of Knowing What You Know
• Thoughts on the First Week Without Speaking English
• I’m 25

• My Next Project – The Year Without English
• Learning on Steroids is now open (until August 22nd)
• Free Learn Faster 1-Week Bootcamp

• Watch Out for “Good” Ideas
• Why Your IQ Matters Less Than You Think
• How to Execute a Successful Side Project

• Is Free University the Future?
• Should You Learn Physics Like Newton? Contrasting Expert and Beginner Learning Strategies
• How to Use Feedback
• What’s Your Growth Ratio?

• How Much Specialization?
• A Step-by-Step Process to Teach Yourself Anything (in a Fraction of the Time)
• Break Your Map

• Blank Slate Moments
• The Paradox of Growth: Do Habits Hurt or Help You Learn?
• How to Focus

• Which Learning Methods Actually Work?
• Catch-22s and Bootstrapping Your Life
• What Matters More: Your Network or Skills?
• Why You Should Read Textbooks

• Self-Discipline Comes First
• WordSmith – Building a Program that Plays Scrabble
• “It’s Who You Know”
• Two Types of Growth

• Flow Doesn’t Maximize Improvement
• Rethinking “Learn it Once”
• Could Obsessive Research Be the Cure for Procrastination?
• What are the Intellectual Ideas Everybody Should Know?

• Is Getting Rich Worth It?
• What I Would Change About the MIT Challenge
• The Interview Method: Why Our Assumptions About Success Are Often Wrong

• Why the Risky Options Can Sometimes Be the Safest
• Should You Pursue Your Dream, Even if You’ll Probably Fail?
• Why the Fuss Over Lectures?

• Learning on Steroids is Now Open
• Double your output (while working fewer hours)
• Free Learn Faster Bootcamp (Starts Tomorrow)
• Why Focus (not Effort) is the Key to Getting Stuff Done
• Paris Meetup and Upcoming Bootcamp
• Why You’re Lazy (and How to Fix It)

• The MIT Challenge is Complete
• One Week Left in the MIT Challenge
• Don’t Follow Your Passion
• The Beginner’s Guide to Learning to Program

• Work Less to Get More Done
• I’m 24
• Fake Wisdom
• Why Forgetting Can Be Good

• How to Lead an Interesting Life and Still Get Stuff Done
• How to Learn Really Hard Courses
• Should You Learn New Skills or Master Old Ones?
• The DIY Degree: Using Self-Education to Earn a Bachelor’s Degree in 1 Year

• TEDx – Can You Get an MIT Education for Less than $2000?
• Wanting the Right Things
• Nonconformers Need Better Social Skills

• Why Should Life Be Simple?
• The Strangeness of Everyday Things
• The Laziness Paradox: Embrace Your Weaknesses to Accomplish More

• Is Owning Your Own Business Worth It?
• Learning to Doubt
• Healthy Delusions?
• A La Carte Education

• Are Habits the Enemy of Mastery?
• Why Does Most Career Advice Suck?
• Can You Learn Faster Without School?

• Just Finish It
• What Matters More, Marketing or Mastery?
• The Sex Scandal Technique: How to Achieve Any Goal, Instantly (and Party with Tim Ferriss)

• If You’re Young, Do Harder, Riskier Things
• Do Hard Things
• Look Lazy, Be Productive

• Two Types of Advice
• Thoughts on Learning a Degree, Without Going to School
• Swimming Upstream Against Your Destiny

• How to Stay Focused (Without Extra Caffeine)
• Does Enjoyment Trump Efficiency?
• Do What Others Won’t or Can’t Do
• Why Learn Math?
• First Lessons in Trying to Finish 4 Years of MIT in 12 Months

• Good Life Philosophies Aren’t Simple
• How Much Do Genes Matter?
• Learning MIT Calculus in 5 Days

• Learning 4 Years of MIT in 12 Months
• Living Closer to Reality
• The “Single Flaw” Fallacy
• Learning on Steroids is Open
• Learn Faster with the Feynman Technique

• Cynicism is Easy, Optimism Takes Guts
• I’m 23
• Why You’re Exhausted But Not Improving
• Developing an Appetite for Hard Ideas
• Completing an MIT Physics Class in 4.5 Days?

• The Skill of Trying Your Best
• Step One is Showing Up
• Is Obsession a Prerequisite for Success?
• Rethinking Talent

• Why It’s Hard Not to Be a Hypocrite
• The Danger of “-isms”
• The Paradox of Success and The Only-72
• Losing Yourself
• Happily Ever After

• Living Longer by Stretching Psychological Time
• Could You Walk Away From $8 Million in Easy Money?
• Welcome Study Hacks Readers!
• Getting Good: How I’m Trying to Be a Better Writer
• Welcome Zen Habits Readers!
• Seven Unconventional Ideas for Getting the Most Out of College

• Why Honest People Cheat
• Is What You Learn in School Really Useless?
• We Become the Story We Tell Ourselves
• What if Luck Matters More than Effort?

• How to Juggle Pursuits and Still Get Stuff Done
• Philosophical Tourism
• When Will the Web Transform Education?
• World Travel or Finding Passion Won’t Escape Who You Are

• Learn Faster, Get More Done: The Free 1-Week Bootcamp
• Building Cool Things
• The Empathy Problem

• Asking the Right Questions
• Unconventional Meet-up in Winnipeg and Do You Need School?
• A Brief Guide to Learning Faster (and Better)
• Day Jobs vs Side Projects

• Berlin Meetup and Best Posts of 2010
• Needing Encouragement is a Weakness
• When You Should Fix Your Weaknesses
• Staying in School Forever

• Subscription Popups: Your Thoughts?
• Routine is the Enemy of Good
• Don’t Know What You Want?
• The Obvious Choice is Often the Worst: Why People Fail Choosing Jobs, Classes and Dates

• Does Dreaming Smaller Result in Living Happier?
• If Not Now, Then When?
• Fear is Good
• Should You Plan to Retire?

• Feeling Lost? Stop Worrying About Your “Life Purpose”
• Learn Faster, Achieve More
• Silencing the Background Noise of Life
• Should Future Entrepreneurs Go to College?
• Is it Possible to Ace University Exams Without Studying?
• Don’t Follow Your Passion, Do Less to Achieve More and The Magic of the Failed-Simulation Effect
• Here’s What’s Wrong with Self-Help

• My Upcoming Video Course, Learning on Steroids and Vancouver Meet-Up
• I’m 22
• Discipline Can Make You Good, Not the Best
• Should You Use Scarcity Thinking When Making Big Life Decisions?

• Why I’ve Decided to Be Wrong More Often
• You Can’t Set Goals to Fix Your Flaws
• How to Find What You’re Passionate About (And Get Paid For It)
• Is Being Rich Important for Living the Ideal Life?

• Life Lessons from One Year in France
• Manageable Awfulness and How to Let Bad Things Happen
• Should You Strive to Live Happily or to Live Good?
• Society’s Attention Deficit – Praise for Deep Thinking in the Era of Shallowness

• How Fast are You Running to Stay in the Same Place?
• Mental Aikido: The Necessity of Unhappiness in the Ideal Life
• Are You Living Life or Just Planning Your Biography?
• Should You Waste More of Your Time?
• Should an Atheist Be Reading the Great Books of Religion?

• Inconvenient Conveniences – Is Easier Always Better?
• If You’re So Smart, Why is Your Life Still a Mess?
• Will Reaching the Ideal Life Make You any Happier?
• My Thoughts on Learning to Speak Another Language
• Case Studies: Help Me Write My Next Book

• Do You Use “Lack of Motivation” as an Excuse?
• Could You Sell Who You Are in 30 Seconds?
• Pragmatic Optimism: How Your Fears and Doubts Can Allow You to Succeed
• Why Goal-Setting Can Leave You Miserable
• I’m Reopening My Rapid Learning Tactics Program
• Does Thinking About the Ideal Life Actually Lead to Living One?
• Society Doesn’t Care that You’re Good at World of Warcraft
• Reader Meet-Up in Paris?
• Should You Wander the World or Build a Home?
• You’re Lazier Than You Think

• Is the Ideal Lifestyle Designed or Earned?
• Why Self-Educated Learners Often Come Up Short
• Welcome ZenHabits Readers!
• Why Most People are Happier Working than in Their Free Time
• My Elusive Quest to Complete a Handstand Pushup
• How to Conquer Your Fears – Engineer a Low Cost of Failure
• Perfectionism Isn’t Bad (In the Long-Term)
• Does the Ideal Life Depend on Your City?
• Stop Using Guilt as a Motivation Tactic

• The Serious Pursuit of Fun
• Living on the Edge of Incompetence
• How to Find Your Productivity Achilles’ Heel
• My Mistakes and Triumphs in Learning a Foreign Language
• Friday Links
• Sleeping Enough is More Important Than Early-Rising
• Why You Should Ignore Passive Income
• Learning on Steroids Sells Out in 36 Minutes!
• Too Much Work? Here’s How to Handle It
• Want Better Results for 2010? Commit to Fewer Things

• What if You Never Graduate?
• The Frustration Barrier – The Key Obstacle to Being Good at Anything
• 9 Tactics for Rapid Learning (That Most People Have Never Heard Of)
• Do You Need Friends That Think Like You?
• Friday Links
• The Crowd is Stupid (You Don’t Need Genius to Beat Them)
• Do People Want Riches to Buy Stuff or Status?
• Friday Links
• Is Employment Always a Bad Thing?
• My Five Favorite Inspirational Films
• Friday Links
• Know Which Stairs to Climb (Or How I Trained to do a Pistol Squat)

• People Don’t Want Experts
• Are Passions Discovered or Constructed?
• The 10 Really Obvious Ways to Be More Productive
• Coming Soon: Learning on Steroids
• What if You Have More Than One Passion?
• Why Most People Give Up and Fail
• Friday Links
• The Joy of Cooking Meals From Scratch
• How to Get More From Life – Free EBook
• New Reader Survey
• Exclusive Webcast: Chat with Ramit and Scott, Live
• How to Earn More, Save Better and Be Rich

• Friday Links
• Why the World is Actually Getting Better
• My Progress in Becoming Bilingual
• Friday Links
• Don’t Quit Your Day Job
• Success Requires Hard Work (But Not All in One Day)
• Friday Links
• Why I Hate Self-Help Platitudes
• Fitness is an End Unto Itself
• Friday Links
• Don’t Work 9-5
• Think Outside the Cubicle – Released!

• Can You Spot These 7 Broken Nutrition Arguments?
• Why Vegetarian?
• Friday Links
• Decide What’s Unimportant to You
• 15 Things I Wish I Knew
• Friday Links
• The Importance of Being Likable
• The Art of the Small Start
• How to Chip Away at Your List of Necessities
• The Pleasure of Living Within Constraints
• I’ve Arrived in France
• Accepting Your Inner Slacker
• Should Your Twenties Be for Work or Play?

• New Website Design
• Staying in the Game
• Loneliness and the Unconventional Life
• Friday Links
• I’m 21
• Do You Trust Your Productivity System?
• Friday Links
• The First Step and the Thousandth
• The Reason People are Unhappy in Relationships
• If You Want to Be Fit, Don’t Buy New Running Shoes
• I’m Back From Europe

• What MMORPGs Can Teach You About Physical Fitness
• Why I’m Not Trying to Build Passive Income
• The Top 20 Motivation Articles at ScottHYoung.com
• How to Draw (and Other Life Lessons)
• Know Your Burn Rate, and Why it Sabotages You Before You Begin
• Ruthless Focus and the Art of Saying No
• What are You Going to be Exceptional at in 10 Years?
• How to Meet Interesting People
• How to Achieve a Goal (If You Don’t Know Where to Start)

• Showing Up and Deliberate Inconsistency
• I’ll Be In Europe for One Month
• Show Up, Every Day
• The Art of Nonconformity
• Friday Links
• How to Set Goals, Without Being Obnoxious
• Why I Stopped Setting Long-Term Goals
• How to Escape the Toxic Friends Holding You Back
• Update on My Goal to Learn French
• Friday Links 09-06-05
• How to Kick Yourself Out of a Slump
• How to Change a Habit – Expansion

• Friday Links 09-05-29
• What the Heck is Spirituality?
• Consistency is an Overrated Virtue
• Don’t Burn Your Ships
• How to Increase Your Creative Output
• Friday Links 09-05-15
• Vidcast #1 – My Goals
• The Time to Start a Business is in Your Twenties
• How to Watch Television Effectively
• Criticism and Praise are the Same
• Friday Links 09-05-01

• Escape the Bad Learning Habits You Picked Up at School
• Be a Rockstar, Not a Record Label: Build an Unscalable Business
• Aggressive Learning
• Website Redesign, Survey Results, and Help Name my Next Book
• Taoism and the Art of Productivity
• You Are Going to Lose Everything Eventually
• Survey is Back Online
• A Quick Survey and a Gift For You!
• Doubt
• Restricting Yourself
• Financial Freedom

• The Effort Threshold
• Friday Links 09-03-27
• How I’m Creating an Emergency Fund with One Year of Income
• Execution is More Important Than Planning
• Don’t Swim in the Shallow Waters
• Ask the Readers: Advice for Learning a Foreign Language
• Honest Self-Evaluation
• The 10 Best Self-Help Books (That Aren’t Self-Help)
• Friday Links 09-03-06
• How to Build a Solid Foundation for Self-Improvement
• Humility is More Important Than Confidence

• You Don’t Need to be a Geek to Start an Online Business
• Average Doesn’t Mean Secure
• Friday Links 09-02-20
• Walk Slowly So You Don’t Trip
• In Praise of Solitude
• Just Because It Won’t Cost Money, Doesn’t Make It Free
• The Magic of Small Steps
• Friday Links 09-02-06
• Fear of Loss
• The Power of Curiosity

• The Evils of Partial Boredom
• Boredom is the Enemy
• Friday Links 09-01-23
• Say Hi
• How I’m Learning to Stop Worrying
• You Only Know What You Measure
• Consciousness Explained
• $10,000 Ideas
• Goal Addiction
• Steady, Incremental Improvement is a Myth

• Life Balance is Overrated
• Friday Links 08-12-26
• The Power of Less
• How to Be More Social
• How to Read Books You Disagree With
• It’s Okay to be Unhappy
• Friday Links 08-12-12
• Positive Thinking
• The Power of Overkill
• How to Get More Time to Sleep

• Friday Links 08-11-28
• Boost Productivity With a To-Don’t List
• Self-Awareness
• How to Nap (Without Feeling Exhausted Afterwards)
• How to Know When to Take a Break
• Friday Links 08-11-14
• How to Discover What You’re Passionate About
• How Much Time Do You Spend on Your Most Important Goals in Life?
• Personal Excellence Comes First
• Get My Stuff For Cheap…

• Is Reading Making You Stupid?
• Should You Try to Make Money?
• Friday Links 08-10-24
• Itchy Chair Motivation
• How to Develop a Thicker Skin
• The Unconventional Guide to Working for Yourself
• The Purpose of This Website is to Lose Its Readers
• How to Figure Out What People Want
• Avoid the Zero-Sum Mind Trap
• Friday Links 08-10-02
• Is It Better to Read Books You Disagree With?

• Help Support Entrepreneurship: The Curry BizCamp
• Why Most Feedback Sucks
• I Hate 99% of All Productivity Gadgets
• Friday Links 08-09-19
• Why Good Deeds and Money Don’t Mix
• Don’t Forget Sunk Costs, Stupid!
• The 10 Best Productivity Articles
• Energy Management Is More Important for Creative Work
• Read More Than You Need to Know
• Know When to Stop Reading a Book

• Friday Links 08-08-29
• The Little Book of Productivity
• 7 Reasons Why the Gym is Better Than Therapy
• Would You Still Work If They Didn’t Pay You?
• I’m 20
• How to Become a Holistic Learner
• In Defense of Food
• Friday Links 08-08-08
• Weight, Traffic and Grades Aren’t That Important
• How to Think For Yourself
• Friday Links 08-08-01

• The Vast, Unstatable Importance of a Positive Attitude
• Schedule Footprints Vs. Deadline Counts: How to Hack Your Stress Levels
• Where Are The Friday Links?
• Gumption
• My Rebuttal to Steve Pavlina: Getting Started Without Skill
• How to Stay Motivated in Long Projects
• Is More Commitment Always a Good Thing?
• Friday Links 08-07-11
• Building Your Persistence Levels
• How to Measure Your Degree of Persistence
• Having Fun With Suicidal Productivity Missions
• The Beginner’s Guide to the 30 Day Trial: Part 2
• Friday Links 08-07-03
• The Beginner’s Guide to the 30 Day Trial
• Set a Higher Baseline
• A Really Cheap Solution to Overspending

• You Can’t Always Separate Wins From Losses
• Friday Links 08-06-27
• Need Little, Want Lots
• How to Stay Focused
• Stop Trying to Impress People
• The High Price of Paying Attention
• Friday Links 08-06-20
• Work, Retire… Then You Die.
• How Much Stuff Do You Need?
• Finding Motivation for Improbable Goals
• How to Improve Your Social Skills
• Friday Links 08-06-13
• The Goal of Learning Everything
• Get More From Life: A Gift For You
• Living a Completely Digital Life
• Social Independence
• Friday Links 08-06-06
• Social Skills and Dancing for Dummies
• Learn More, Study Less: Zen Habits Special Offer
• Why Making Money is More Fun than Having It
• Don’t Pay Yourself By the Hour

• Friday Links 08-05-30
• The Importance of Going to Bed Tired
• Email Zen Released
• The Value of Independence
• My Goals for Life
• Friday Links 08-05-23
• One Month Isn’t That Long…
• Selfish Volunteering
• You’re Allowed to Be Happy and Ambitious at the Same Time
• Be Ambitious With Goals, Not Deadlines
• Friday Links 08-05-16
• Want to Eat Healthier? Learn to Cook.
• Great Ideas are Valuable, But Extremely Hard to Recognize
• Be Unique, Be an Uber-Geek
• Would You Be Bored if You Had Everything?
• Friday Links 08-05-09
• Self-Confidence is an Oxymoron
• Shortcomings Create Your Opportunities
• Why Superman is a Bad Role Model
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