Next week, I’m going to be opening registration for Foundations, my new year-long program designed to help you build stronger foundations for your life. Given the twelve foundations we’re going to work on for the following year, I wanted to distill some of the best advice I’ve received in each, both the obvious advice that […]
The Foundations for Success and Happiness Are the Same
The practices we need to thrive as human beings appear to be largely harmonious across many different goals and pursuits.
A Solid Foundation is More Than Just Good Habits
We need a lot more than just automatic behaviors to sustain a change. We need knowledge to guide the right actions, self-efficacy to know we are capable of taking them, rules and systems for managing decisions, courage to overcome our fears and a shift of identity to sustain it throughout the innumerable disruptions that will occur in life.
I’m 36
Today is my birthday. Continuing a tradition I began half a lifetime ago, this is an update on my life over the last year and my plans for the year ahead. This year was a transitional one. My second book, Get Better at Anything, was published in May. It was a central project of mine […]
I'm a Wall Street Journal bestselling author, podcast host, computer programmer and an avid reader. Since 2006, I've published weekly essays on this website to help people like you learn and think better. My work has been featured in The New York Times, BBC, TEDx, Pocket, Business Insider and more. I don't promise I have all the answers, just a place to start.