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Can Doing Less Help You Shine Like a Superstar?
Just practicing more doesn’t help if you aren’t learning valuable lessons
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Have you ever suspected there must be a better way to do something? In this series, we explore topics like communication, thinking and decision-making, happiness and habits, and more. I give you concrete tools you can use to continuously improve over time.
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Effective Altruism Begins Close to Home
There's a way to significantly contribute to the human condition while helping yourself in the bargain
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How to Measure Your Impact on the World (Newsletter 072)
Introducing the Purpose-Influence-Power Model
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The Downside to Academic Life in the United States
I can either go along and not make waves, or I can be an interesting and honest teacher who challenges students to think and learn. I'm not at all sure I can do both.
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Slouching Towards Catastrophe (Newsletter 069)
Without deprivation, plenty goes unremarked. Without hardship and suffering, ease is little regarded.
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How Will America Decline?
A history of success in almost any endeavor does not guarantee success forever. In fact, it would be foolish to assume so.
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How Valuable is Consistency? (Newsletter 068)
It takes discipline and conviction to stay true to a slow but steady course. Particularly when you're regularly confronted with examples of instant success.
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How Much Should Bosses Care About Employees?
Can I care about your performance and want you to be successful without caring about your personal life?
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The Worst Career Advice
The happiest people I know are the ones who learn that success is not measured in money.
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Disagree without being Disagreeable (Newsletter 065)
Ideas spread and become influential because they win over new adherents. If you want your ideas to gain traction you must expose them to people who do not yet agree with you.
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Achieve Better Outcomes by Being Humble
When we get into the habit of considering what could go wrong before we act, we can improve our odds of future success without having to first personally experience failure.
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A Little Philosophy Goes A Long Way (Newsletter 062)
In our journey to finding happiness, thinking for ourselves is the key to unlock and then banish all the bad habits that may have crept into our lives.