How to strengthen your willpower and achieve your goals.
I started today with perfectly laid out plans for how everything will happen. Now 12 hours later I have several tasks unfinished and no hope of getting them done today. My day exploded because I forgot to include one meeting on the daily list...
Do you want to get better results faster? If you earn money by using your brain, then there are some basic skills you have to master. Those skills fall into 4 areas. Getting input, processing the information, generating output and leading others. When you...
Every now and then, when I want to do something regularly, and that regularly is not every day, then I tend to forget to do the things I’ve decided to do. But it seems that the hardest habits to form are the ones that...
In How to Find Time for Stuff I wrote about how to plan your day in a way that your to-do list wouldn’t overflow to the next day. But this is just a tactical solution for a much larger issue in your life. What...
Behavioral economics‘ role is growing in explaining why we do thing the way we do and what motivates us. Gone are the days when economists could base their work on rational behavior maximizing the value to homo economicus. Marketing, sales, persuasion, and other business...
Do you want to be happier? Stop comparing yourself to others! Stop benchmarking yourself, your children, your income or whatever against others. Benchmarking is bullshit! It is based on partial data and external cues that do not tell the complete story. Are you keeping...
When you think about learning something, then you probably see the people who have mastered the skill and think about achieving their level of competence. However, you know that to get to the expert level, to be the best of the best, you need...
First I want to be clear that I’m not regularly hugging trees or think that we should get back to our roots and run barefoot because cavemen didn’t have Nikes. I just want to be a better runner. If tech from 10,000BC will help...
Tim Urban knows that procrastination doesn’t make sense, but he’s never been able to shake his habit of waiting until the last minute to get things done. In this hilarious and insightful talk, Urban takes us on a journey through YouTube binges, Wikipedia rabbit...
More than 10 years ago I quit smoking (the date was February 21 2005). It was not so much that I didn’t like smoking but I just wanted to see if I could do it. On the weekend I was skiing with my friend...
As the Athletic Director and head coach of the Varsity Soccer team at Ryerson University, Dr. Joseph is often asked what skills he is searching for as a recruiter: is it speed? Strength? Agility? In Dr. Joseph’s TEDx Talk, he explores self-confidence and how...
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