What If We Focused On 'Learning' Goals Rather Than 'Achieving' Them?
If there is a central casting bureau for personal development gurus, leadership trainers, and self-help authors, then the casting director seems to be handing out the same script: focus on goals!...
View ArticleThe Coming Disruption: Teen Knowledge Work
Dale Stephens is 19. If you or your business would like to consult with him for a day, his published rate on his website is $5,000. Though he will fly to your consulting session via coach class.
View Article3 Steps to Build Your Own Social Economy: The Secret to Weathering Any...
I'm about to say something that I'm sure will come off as crass to many people: for the most part, I didn't notice there was a recession.
View ArticleComplaining About the Economy vs. Becoming a Rainmaker
I just recently heard yet another person complaining about "the economy" and blaming her woes on it, as if some nebulous force she didn't understand was acting to thwart her.
View Article5 Ways to Make Your Time More Valuable
It's obvious that different stretches of our time can be more or less valuable to us. For example, an hour in which our mind is sparkling and sharp, and coming up with brilliant ideas and insights, is...
View ArticleMisogyny is Alive and Well: V. S. Naipaul on Female Writers
Nobel-prize winning novelist V. S. Naipaul was recently quoted in the Guardian saying that no female writer in history is his equal. He derided Jane Austen, saying he "couldn't possibly share her...
View ArticleThe Top 4 Reasons Why 'Passive Income' Is A Dangerous Fantasy
I've been encountering a lot of people lately -- particularly young people rightly enthralled with the seemingly limitless potential of the Internet -- who have focused their professional lives on...
View ArticleThe More Friends You Have, The More Unpredictable Your Life Is--And That's a...
You're in the middle of a routine workday. Your neat work blocks in your calendar present a predictable path to finishing all the work you planned to accomplish for the day.
View ArticleOne of the Best Hours You'll Ever Spend
One of the best hours you'll ever spend will be reading Derek Sivers's new book, out today, Anything You Want.
View ArticleAre The Status Games You're Playing Helping You or Hurting You?
I look around me, and mostly I see people engaged in status games. (No, I am not excepting myself from this judgment… Oh no, I’m not that foolish.) Political status games Income status games...
View ArticleHow I Overcame Bipolar II (and Saved My Own Life)
(Author’s note and disclaimer: The following piece details my story of overcoming a serious and potentially-fatal mental illness, bipolar II, between the years of 2000-2007. I have decided to write...
View ArticleLife Lessons From a Fire-Breathing, Stilt-Walking Billionaire
What is the number one piece of advice parents give young people for being successful later in life? “Go to college!”
View ArticleThe Paradoxical Secret of Obsession-Worthy Branding
OK, I have a little mental experiment for you. I promise, if you take a few moments for this, it will be fun, and you'll gain a great deal of uncommon insight into the concept of "branding."
View ArticleWhy Trying to Learn Clear Writing in College is Like Trying to Learn Sobriety...
Knowing how to write compelling and persuasive emails, letters, memos, pitches and proposals sets you apart from the masses, who are mediocre communicators. It is one of the most effective skills you...
View ArticleWhy Success Makes Your Life More Complex, Not Less (And Why Understanding...
In the course of writing my books and articles about success, I talk to a lot of people about what that word means to them, and why they want more success in their own lives.
View ArticleThe Education of an Entrepreneur, Episode 1: The Story of Rose Cole
In this new series I’m launching today, I tell stories of successful entrepreneurs who did not complete college, and focused their education on street-smarts in the real world, rather than on academic...
View ArticleHow to Network Your Way to World-Class Mentors: The Thiel Fellowship Lecture,...
Last year, PayPal cofounder and first outside Facebook investor Peter Thiel made waves when he announced the Thiel Fellowship, a program to pay twenty people under the age of twenty $100,000 each to...
View ArticleHow to Network Your Way to World-Class Mentors: The Thiel Fellowship Lecture,...
[This is Part 2 of a talk I delivered to the Thiel Fellows in June, 2011, in Sausalito, CA. For the background to this talk, and for the full video of the talk, start at Part 1.]
View ArticleHow to Network Your Way to World-Class Mentors and Teachers: The Thiel...
[This is Part 3 of a talk I delivered to the Thiel Fellows in June, 2011, in Sausalito, CA. For the background to this talk, and for the full video of the talk, start at Part 1. Then read Part 2.]
View ArticleNix Your Neediness Now
I'm going to write about something that could be having a massive impact on your career and business success, and yet which I've never seen written about in a business context:
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