How often have you spent hours, days or even months working on a plan only to see it crumble on execution? How much time have you spent worrying about taking an action only to see completely different results than you expected? Experimentation is not only essential to have variety, excitement and challenge in your life […]
Archives for January 2007
How to Build Skills Faster
Most goal achievement will require a certain amount of skill building. These can be external skills like communication, programming or design. They may also be internal skills like courage, discipline or emotional mastery. Much of faster achievement means faster skill building. Practice Makes Perfect The cornerstone of building any skill is practice. Instruction, modeling and […]
Profound Wisdom
I found myself reading Herman Hesse’s famous novel Siddhartha over my holiday break. The story follows the man Siddhartha as he goes along his quest for truth, stumbles into confusion and despair but eventually finds wisdom. There is one particular passage at the end of the novel where Siddhartha is trying to give his friend, […]
How to Change Your Beliefs
What causes someone to persist when another would give up? What causes a person to focus and utilize all their resources towards a goal? What ultimately creates the difference between happiness and despair? The answer is beliefs. I’ve tried a lot of crazy methods to improve my beliefs structure. Most of them didn’t work very […]
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