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- 5 Reflections From My Think Week · 12 perc · 488. epizódLast week, my business partner and I held our quarterly "Think Week" retreat. The plan for this retreat was straightforward: • 2 days • Limited connectivity, no meetings •…
- The Random Cage Effect: Why Preparation Beats Planning · 9 perc · 487. epizódThis is one of my strongest held beliefs: Preparation beats planning. Planning is based on the expectation of order. Preparation is based on the expectation of chaos. And as I…
- When In Doubt, Zoom Out · 10 perc · 486. epizódA few days ago, I made a terrible mistake. I woke up, grabbed my phone, and started scrolling X while making my coffee. In the span of about two minutes, my brain got hit with…
- I Think You Need to Become a Beginner Again · 10 perc · 485. epizódIn 2021, I left my traditional career track in finance to go all in on writing and creative work. I assumed that more time inputs would mean more, and better, outputs. I was…
- Brutally Honest Advice to My 22-Year-Old Self · 12 perc · 484. epizódI'm often asked for advice from people just starting out in life. When I respond, I imagine I'm speaking to my 22-year-old self. Young. Energetic. Highly ambitious. But with…
- The Locksmith Paradox · 10 perc · 483. epizódIn an apocryphal story, legendary painter Pablo Picasso was walking through the market when a woman approached him and asked for a drawing. Picasso quickly drew a small, but…
- The Overwhelm Protocol · 8 perc · 482. epizódA six week stretch of travel had already reduced my output. Then, I got caught in an earthquake in Panama. And finally, upon returning home on little sleep, I was laid out by a…
- 30 Hours in a Massive Earthquake · 8 perc · 481. epizódLast Wednesday, I flew to Panama to deliver two keynotes. I was excited for the trip. I’d been once before as a kid and remembered the beautiful country. I completed the first…
- The Loud Liker Theory · 7 perc · 480. epizódConfession: I’ve never been someone who was a natural in social settings. As something of an introvert, I struggled to build new adult relationships. I often felt others weren’t…
- The Stories You Tell Yourself · 8 perc · 479. epizódWhen I was 13 years old, a single story changed the course of my life. But to understand it, I need to take you back in time to a strange experiment from decades ago…
- My 90 -10 Rule for Routines · 8 perc · 478. epizódConfession: I'm a routine guy. I thrive on structure. I think of routines as a way to ensure execution against the daily action that contributes to long-term, compounding…
- The Middle Path to Happiness · 8 perc · 477. epizódIn the 3rd century BCE, King Pyrrhus was preparing for an aggressive military campaign in Italy when a trusted advisor named Cineas asked him a simple question: After conquering…
- The Protégé Effect: A Powerful Model for the AI Era · 8 perc · 476. epizódAI is quite clearly the biggest buzzword of the year. But one thing I don't see anyone talking about is just how much AI is shifting how rewards are earned. Things are changing…
- 7 Lessons From My 2:49 Marathon (That Have Nothing To Do With Running) · 12 perc · 475. epizódLast week I wrote about failing a marathon. Six days later, at 5am, I drove back to the course alone and ran 26.25 miles in 2:48:47. Not because I needed the official result…
- Jevons Paradox: The Perils of Efficiency · 8 perc · 474. epizódIn 1865, English economist William Stanley Jevons studied the impact of the increased efficiency of coal use. The common economic intuition said that as efficiency improved…
- I Think I Need to Talk About Failure · 11 perc · 473. epizódLast Sunday, I was scheduled to run a marathon with a goal of completing the race in 2:49:59. I trained all summer for the race, building up to 70+ mile weeks. I tapered. I carb…
- Be a Ford, Then a Sloan · 9 perc · 472. epizódThe engineer took out an axe and slammed it into the brick wall. It was June 1896. The young man had spent months working in a small brick shed behind his rented house, only to…
- It Was Just a Game of Catch · 7 perc · 471. epizódLast weekend, my family and I made our annual pilgrimage to a small community in northwest Connecticut. When I was 18 months old, my parents had rented a house there for the…
- A Lesson From a Mentor I'll Never Forget · 6 perc · 470. epizódI first met Tim Cook in 2014. I was just starting my career in finance and had signed up for a local gym that opened at 5:00am. I started arriving at 4:45am so I could get to…
- 9 Harsh Truths Nobody Told You About Success · 11 perc · 469. epizódI'm convinced that the market for telling people what they want to hear is much larger than the market for telling people what they need to hear. That one fact explains a lot of…
- The Focusing Illusion: A Science-Backed Life Trap · 8 perc · 468. epizódImagine two different people on the same mid-January day. One lives in California. He walks outside in shorts and a t-shirt. The warm sun beams down on his face. He puts on his…
- The Hidden Debt of Convenience · 9 perc · 467. epizódA few weeks ago, I came across a podcast clip of Conan O'Brien talking about why he doesn't pay to fly private. He likes going through the airport, chatting with people at TSA…
- Why You Need to Subtract: The Vasa Effect · 8 perc · 466. epizódIn 1628, Sweden's mightiest warship sank less than a mile into its maiden voyage -- not because of an enemy attack, but because a king couldn't stop adding to it. I call it the…
- Why You Need a Side Quest in Life · 11 perc · 465. epizódThe seat you randomly chose on day one is the seat you'll sit in for the rest of the term. My college professor said that, and he was right -- not just about lecture halls, but…
- The Scarlet Robe Effect · 7 perc · 464. epizódA fancy robe nearly destroyed a philosopher's life. In 1765, Denis Diderot's financial means went from meager to extravagant. Soon thereafter, he came to own a fancy scarlet…
- The Traffic Jam Theory of Success · 16 perc · 463. epizódEveryone's asking: how do I stand out in the AI era? A 1968 German mathematician's traffic paradox holds the answer. When everyone floods the new shortcut, the fast lane becomes…
- A Japanese Ritual to Improve Your Habits · 6 perc · 462. epizódIn the early 1900s, an aging Japanese steam train engineer named Yasoichi Hori was growing increasingly concerned about his deteriorating eyesight. Hori's job relied on his…
- I Think I'm Having a Reverse Midlife Crisis · 9 perc · 461. epizódI think I'm having a midlife crisis." That's what my friend, who I'll call Joe, said to me at dinner a few weeks ago. Joe is in his early-40s. He's had a good career on a steady…
- The IKEA Effect: Why Effort Still Counts · 8 perc · 460. epizódWhy do you value the things you build yourself so much more than anything you can buy? In this episode, I share a personal story from my first apartment and break down the…
- Stop Making a 5-Year Plan (Do This Instead) · 10 perc · 459. epizód"So, what's your 5-year plan?" That was the question posed to me by a mentor in January 2021. At the time, I was about seven years into my career, on the "track" in finance…
- How to Avoid Catastrophe: The Normalization of Deviance · 6 perc · 458. epizódOn January 27, 1986, just 16 hours before the Space Shuttle Challenger was set to launch, an engineer named Roger Boisjoly presented data showing a catastrophic risk with the…
- A Few Things I've Changed My Mind On · 11 perc · 457. epizódI’m increasingly convinced that the willingness to change your mind is the ultimate sign of intelligence. The most impressive people I know change their minds often in response…
- How Old Will You Be If You Don’t? · 6 perc · 456. epizódLast week, I wrote a piece about reinvention. Specifically, the myth of too late and how to reinvent your life at any age or life stage. It clearly struck a chord. I received…
- The Cobra Effects of Life · 9 perc · 455. epizódIn colonial India, a bounty on cobras was supposed to reduce the snake population. Instead, people started breeding cobras for profit — and when the policy ended, they released…
- The Life-Changing Magic of Active Optimism · 7 perc · 454. epizódThere’s an old children’s fable I recently retold to my son about a farmer whose wagon wheel gets stuck in the mud. He calls on Hercules to come to his aid. Hercules appears…
- How to Reinvent Your Life in 30 Days · 15 perc · 453. epizódEvery single week, I invariably get a handful of emails from readers around the world with a similar general message. Stuck on a path. Living a life they didn’t really choose…
- The Frog Pond Effect · 3 perc · 452. epizódHave you ever noticed that growth feels like destruction? That getting better feels like getting worse? You're not doing something wrong. You're just experiencing something…
- Why Are You In Such A Rush? · 8 perc · 451. epizódThere’s a beautiful Zen parable that goes something like this: A man is walking across a field when a tiger leaps out from the trees and runs toward him. Fearing for his life…
- The Zipper Test: How to Stop Fooling Yourself · 6 perc · 450. epizódMy son just turned four. One of the things I love most about the age is the unbridled curiosity with which he explores the world. He's deep in the classic "why" phase, taking me…
- 7 Lies I Finally Stopped Telling Myself · 9 perc · 449. epizódA few years ago, as part of the research for my first book , I asked a group of centenarians for the advice they'd most like to give to their younger selves. One of them offered…
- The Helsinki Bus Station Theory · 7 perc · 448. epizódIn 2004, a Finnish-American photographer named Arno Minkkinen gave the commencement speech at the New England School of Photography. In the speech, he offered a powerful thought…
- The 2 Types of Knowledge: Real vs. Surface · 7 perc · 447. epizódIn 1918, German theoretical physicist Max Planck won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of energy quanta. After winning the prize, he went on a tour, giving lectures at…
- Winner's Game vs. Loser's Game · 5 perc · 446. epizód"No unforced errors." At a recent speaking event, I was asked by an audience member to share one piece of advice I wish I could tell my younger self. Specifically, they asked…
- The 4 Types of Professional Time · 11 perc · 445. epizódMost people end the day exhausted but can't point to a single thing they meaningfully moved forward. The problem isn't how much you're working -- it's the type of work filling…
- The Goal Gradient Hypothesis · 8 perc · 444. epizód105.5. That's how many laps you have to run around the first lane of a regulation outdoor track to cover the 26.2 miles of a marathon. And, when I arrived at my local high…
- The ABC Goal System · 7 perc · 443. epizód"Just be consistent." By now, you've undoubtedly heard this advice countless times. So much so that it may even induce an eye roll or sigh. Yes, it’s true, consistency is the…
- The Pratfall Effect · 6 perc · 442. epizódIn 1966, a University of Texas psychologist named Elliot Aronson ran an experiment to examine the role of imperfection on human connection. Aronson recruited 48 college students…
- 5 Life Learnings From 5 Years of The Curiosity Chronicle · 10 perc · 441. epizódA few days ago, I was reminded by a reader that May 14 was the five year anniversary of my first Curiosity Chronicle newsletter. Sending that first newsletter, which went out to…
- The Eject Button Mentality · 7 perc · 440. epizódIn 2002, Harvard psychologists Daniel Gilbert and Jane Ebert designed a series of studies to test the role of optionality on happiness and human satisfaction. In the first…
- The Most Powerful Decision Making Razors · 11 perc · 439. epizódA razor is a rule of thumb that simplifies decision making. The term comes from philosophy. A principle that let you quickly cut away unlikely explanations or unnecessary steps…
