What is the most valuable skill you can learn? Computer programming? Another language? Communication skills? Instead of these, and other popular answers, I’d like to suggest it’s something we don’t even teach in schools: The most important skill in life is being able to set goals and make them a reality. Ask yourself, how often […]

The most important choice you can make in life is deciding which games you’re going to play. Life is full of games. There’s the getting-in-shape game, the climbing-the-corporate-ladder game, the saving-enough-for-retirement game and the get-married-and-have-kids game. Like all games, these all have objectives, rules and players. Sometimes the games are strictly well-defined, like the becoming-an-Olympic-athlete […]

We all have moments of self-doubt. Times when we feel we can’t possibly live up to the high expectations other people put upon us. I think it’s comforting to know that you’re not alone. Richard Feynman, who would go on to win a Nobel Prize and be one of the greatest physicists of the 20th […]

Every problem you face, has been faced by someone else before you. Biographies, therefore, represent an incredible resource: seeing the successes and failures of different approaches to life, without having to live them all yourself firsthand. Here are some of my favorite biographies, along with the lessons I drew from that individual on how to […]