Success isn’t money, a beautiful spouse or a great body. It’s waking up early and running because you said you would. It’s working on that project to learn Python, in your spare time, when you’d rather relax and watch television. It’s reading books on investing. And then, figuring out how to set up automatic savings […]

Recently I got an email from a reader who was upset at a recent string of failed efforts. He kept getting into a cycle of becoming really motivated, making some new habits or plans, and then having them crash down around him a few weeks later, leaving him even more depressed than before. In talking […]

There’s a concept from statistics about the two types of mistakes you can make. These are, unhelpfully, referred to as type I and type II errors. To examine the difference between the two types, imagine you have a blood test for a rare and deadly disease. There are four possible outcomes of the test. The […]

Stretch a bow to the very full,And you will wish you had stopped in time;Temper a sword-edge to its very sharpest,And you will find it soon grows dull.When bronze and jade fill your hall.It can no longer be guarded.Wealth and place breed insolence.That brings ruin in its train.When your work is done, then withdraw!Such is […]