In anticipation of a new session of my popular course, Rapid Learner, I’m sharing a four-part lesson series on how to create successful learning projects. In the first lesson, I distinguished the key differences between project finishers and project starters. Today, I’d like to discuss how to make the projects you undertake effective. How can […]

If I was to describe one practice that, when sustained over time, could produce the greatest benefits for your life, it would be this: regularly starting—and completing—meaningful projects. Projects are bigger than individual tasks, but still aim to complete some concrete set of actions. A project can be all sorts of things. It can be […]

Today is the first day of the seventh month in my year-long Foundations project. This month’s focus is sleep. 

In case you’re interested, here are my notes from the previous six months: Sleep is essential for health, productivity and well-being. Yet often we don’t give it the attention it deserves. While those who shirk on […]

Having now reached the end of the sixth month of my year-long Foundations project, I’d like to share some reflections on this month’s focus: outreach. In doing the reading for this month, I found myself impressed by the numerous associations between having strong and broad social ties and living well. Being connected isn’t just good […]