4 days agoMember-onlyThese 14 Small Mindset Shifts Will Change Your LifeFor the most part, we can’t change the world. We can’t change the fundamental facts of existence–like the fact that we’re going to die. We can’t change other people. Does that mean that everything is hopeless and permanently broken? No, because although we have that extreme powerlessness in one sense…Motivation9 min readMotivation9 min read
Sep 13Member-only24 Leadership Principles From The Greatest Business, Military, Political, and Sports LeadersPeople think that leadership is something that just happens. One is anointed a leader. One is promoted to leadership. One is born into leadership. And of course, this is not the case. “Leadership,” Eisenhower said, “is the art of getting someone else to do something that you want done because…Philosophy13 min readPhilosophy13 min read
Sep 6Member-onlyThese 38 Reading Rules Changed My LifeIt’s a weird thing to say, but I guess I’m a professional reader. That’s really what authors are. A book is made of books. “The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading; a man will turn over half a library to make one book,” Samuel Johnson said. …Philosophy9 min readPhilosophy9 min read
Aug 24Member-onlyNo You Can’t Have It All (Especially as a Parent)Parenting is all about discipline. It’s about being strict and firm and unrelenting. Not with your kids, to be clear. That’s being a disciplinarian. When I say parenting is all about discipline, I’m talking about the only form that matters: self-discipline. There is a story about one of those legendary…Parenting6 min readParenting6 min read
Aug 15Member-onlyWhat To Do When War, Climate Change, And Other Global Threats Inevitably Hit Your StartupI wouldn’t have thought that a book about an obscure school of ancient philosophy would put me in the manufacturing business, but life is full of surprises. Several years ago, after writing a book called The Daily Stoic, I started an email list that delivered one philosophical meditation each day…Entrepreneurship7 min readEntrepreneurship7 min read
Jul 27Member-only24 Things I Wish I Had Done Sooner (or my biggest regrets)Of all the things in life we don’t control, the past is the clearest. It already happened. It’s done. It’s set in stone. Perhaps we could have controlled and changed it, but the fact is, we didn’t. And now it is what it is, forever a was. For this reason…Life8 min readLife8 min read
Jul 14Member-onlyIt Always Takes Longer Than You Expect (Even When You Take This Into Account)When I finished my first book, I hired a publicist. I was 25. It cost $20,000 and was, to that point, the most money I had ever spent in my life. As part of the scope of work, they had me put together a list of my top twenty or…Life4 min readLife4 min read
Jun 16Member-only36 Lessons on the Way to 36 Years OldThe amount of times I had to do the math to see how old I was this year was alarming. Even as I wrote this piece, I had to check, 36, right? Wait, did I accidentally do 36 last year? …Life14 min readLife14 min read
May 17Member-only31 Lessons I’ve Learned About MoneyI remember learning how to play the recorder in elementary school. I remember square dancing. I remember cursive. I built a model of a Spanish mission out of sugar cubes. Some of this was fun. Some of it wasn’t. Some of it probably contributed, in some indirect way, to my…Money10 min readMoney10 min read
May 3Member-onlyThis Is Why You Can’t Wait Until LaterAt 6:45pm on Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014, I got an email from my friend Seth Roberts, the pioneering and peerless scientist. I opened it, saw that it was to be the first of a long awaited column called “Personal Science” for the Observer, where I was then an editor. I…Philosophy4 min readPhilosophy4 min read
