Category: success
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Overcoming the Sunk Cost Fallacy
Opportunity Purchase Theory (OPT) Geoffrey Hale We purchase opportunity. We do not purchase tickets to an event, for example; We purchase the opportunity to attend an event. There is no binding contract, just a use-it-or-lose-it de facto contract with the universe. We are not obligated to limit ourselves to participating in the opportunity we have…
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The Kids Are Actually Sort of Alright by Noreen Malone
CLARE: ok, you know what i always think about when i think of our generation? i read the david brooks book, “the social animal” and while it was only mediocre, he had this one really great bit that really stuck with me—the Greek ideal of “thumos”, which is the lust not for money or success…
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Off Balance On Purpose by Dan Thurmon
Dan Thurmon: Off Balance On Purpose We long for a sense of balance, a sense of completion, a sense where all of our efforts even out. Life balance is a concept that is intriguing, desireable, and I believe completely unrealistic. You will never achieve perfect balance, and neither will I which is why I’ve given…
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Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was Eighteen
Do What You Love Find hard work you love doing. If I could offer my eighteen-year-old self some real career advice, I’d tell myself not to base my career choice on other people’s ideas, goals, and recommendations. I’d tell myself not to pick a major because it’s popular, or statistically creates graduates who make the…
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OutsideOnline: Tim Ferriss’s Life Hacks | Mental Conditioning
All credit to” Michael Roberts at OutsideOnline.com Original Article: Tim Ferris’s Life Hacks | Mental Conditioning | OutsideOnline.com Effective Incentives shame humiliation peer pressure financial loss Ultramarathoning Running ultramarathons… (isn’t) necessarily what the human body is designed to do. Ultramarathoners are fit in the sense that they are well-adapted organisms for long-distance running. I’m going…
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30 Days of Waking Up at 5AM – Day 1
It’s now 5:30 in the morning. I’ve eaten breakfast (2 fried eggs, oven roasted chicken, old strawberries, raw broccoli and Muscle Milk 100% Whey with almond milk). And now I’m writing this blog post while marveling at the unfamiliar variety of pains in my back, legs and feet. I can’t believe how horribly early it…