If you were given a room of 200 people, and only had time to ask one question about each person, which question would you ask to guess whether or not they would be wildly successful in life? The obvious candidate questions would be, “are you smart?”, “are you ambitious?”, “hard-working?” But, as I think about […]
Boredom is the Enemy
“Boredom is the enemy, not some abstract ‘failure.’” Tim Ferriss “People tolerate waaaay too much boredom in their lives.” Ben Casnocha If you measured your life, not by achievements, but by how much boredom you could avoid, would you live life differently? Would you accomplish less? Or, by eliminating the things that dull you, would […]
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