Say you’re unhappy about something in your life: your job, your health, your spouse, your skills. In all these cases you have many choices about what you can do, but they all largely fall into two different categories: Do something about it. Accept things as they are. Doing something about it can take many forms. […]
How to Be So Good They Can’t Ignore You – Free, Live Webinar with Cal Newport
Cal Newport, author of the book So Good They Can’t Ignore You, and I are going to be hosting a free, live 1-hour webinar and you’re invited to join us. We’ll be sharing more strangely useful career advice and giving away some of the insights we’ve gained building our course Top Performer, over the last […]
If you want to be an author, don’t start writing (and other strangely useful career advice)
I don’t know anything about cars. Exhibit A: My friend picks me up in his car, which I’ve ridden in over a dozen times. We go out, and when we head back to the parking lot, I tried opening the passenger door. Except it wasn’t his car. It wasn’t the same make or model. It […]
Everyone is Trying to Sell You Something
I remember when I was a kid, I was often warned to beware of people trying to sell you something. The implication being, salespeople are often self-serving with their persuasion, if not downright dishonest, and therefore you’re rarely getting an unbiased account of the information. I feel this attitude is profoundly unfair. But not because […]
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