From the Web Thinking Errors – A good look at the psychological errors in reasoning. These biases seem to plague our thinking but can’t be controlled. Here’s two: Conjunction Fallacy – The probability of two events happening simultaneously must be lower than each one happening on it’s own. For example, if I asked you the […]
Be Yourself, Law of Attraction and Other Pieces of Bad Advice
I give a lot of advice on this blog. I’d like to think that some of it is good, otherwise you wouldn’t be reading it. Part of giving advice, however, means you need to receive a lot of it. And a good amount of the advice I get from friends, books or blogs, is crap. […]
New Entrepreneur Mistakes and Thinking Different with Ben Casnocha
Ben Casnocha is a remarkable guy. Not only is starting and building a multimillion dollar business a difficult task, Ben managed to do it when still in highschool. Starting Comcate, his second company, at the age of 14 meant Ben was doing sales presentations to government officials over twice his age and making last minute […]
Eliminate Boredom With These 12 Tips
Why do you feel bored and what can you do against it? Discover my 12 steps on how to eliminate boredom and nuke procrastination.
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