Think Like an Investor: Why Rationality Trumps High IQ

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I was watching a video on YouTube of Warren Buffet giving a speech and I saw this comment.

It made me snicker.Continue Reading…

How to Become a Momentum Machine: Combine Powerful Psychological Principles to Boost Motivation, Build Self-Esteem, And Be a Winner Every Day

blake-spiral-stairs“You’re a machine!”

“You’re always doing some stuff, it’s like you’re a machine man.”

“You’re a freaking machine dude — you just keep going forward.”

(Etc.,)

A lot of people have told me I’m a “machine” over the past 3 months.

The funny thing is that none of these people even know each other.Continue Reading…

How To Understand And Use The Power of Incremental Change (and why most people don’t)

incremental changeI’ve often had the bad luck of being trapped in the same room with irritating flies.

This really annoyed me. . .

. . .Until I learned a really smart method for killing those bastards.Continue Reading…

The Secret To How You Can Get the Benefits of Being An Expert Without Putting in 10000 Hours

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From a young age, you are told to “study this” or “do that”.

You’re told to apply to this college or that university.

You’re told to get this degree or that certification.

Then… Some day… you will be an expert in your field.Continue Reading…

Become Someone Worth Helping

457569270_434a85ae08_oSome people think that the world is out to get them, and that there’s some kind of organized conspiracy going on by unknown bad guys, to keep them from rising up.

Are they right?Continue Reading…

How to Overcome the Fear of Failure and Develop the Will to Win

7054186821_5d273048fb_bHave you ever felt like you cared more about “not failing” than you cared about winning?

That you cared more about “appearing to be badass” than you cared about doing the things required to become a badass?Continue Reading…

How to Find People Worthy of Your Time and Get Them to Like You

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Do you think it’s hard to find people you’d want to surround yourself with — intelligent people who actually do things?

I know I do did.Continue Reading…

The “Non-Woo” Version of The Law of Attraction (And How You Can Practice it Daily)

The "Non-Woo Woo" Version of The Law of AttractionThe Law of Attraction actually works. But not in the way that most people think it does.

I recently got $1000 deposited into my bank account for no reason. That’s enough money to sustain me for an entire month.

However, I never asked for that to happen. It was freak luck. Nothing else. It was not the Law of Attraction that gave me that money.Continue Reading…