Humility is an underrated virtue. For every ten articles I see written about how to improve self-confidence, I only see one that suggests humility might be important at all. I did a quick Google search of “improving confidence” and came up with 9,580,000 results. I did another search with “improving humility” and only got 499,000 […]
Steady, Incremental Improvement is a Myth
If you’re want to double your income from $4000 per month to $8000 over a year, what is more likely: Increasing your monthly income by $350 each month. Spending 11 months to go from $4000 per month to $4050, then getting to $8000 in the last month. I’d say that the second, although it seems […]
The Purpose of This Website is to Lose Its Readers
I might be committing blogging suicide by saying this, but I feel the purpose of this blog is to eventually lose all its readers. I fully expect that, at some point, every person who subscribed to read my thoughts will eventually unsubscribe. I’m completely fine with that. The point of any source of information, whether […]
Avoid the Zero-Sum Mind Trap
In life, few things are truly zero-sum. A zero-sum game has winners and losers. If you believe that in order to make $100, someone else needs to lose $100, that’s zero-sum. While there are often tradeoffs in life, in most situations having a winner doesn’t mean there needs to be a loser. Unfortunately, I think […]
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