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January 17, 2021January 17, 2021 Habits Life Life stories Mindset Wealth

How 2020 Changed My Spending Habits

2020 was tough for a lot of us. For me, it meant getting laid off, trying to maintain two mortgages, while trying to support my …

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January 17, 2021January 17, 2021 Habits Mindset Work

How Commitments Can Help Your Career

In his book Born For This, the author Chris Guillebeau talks about a strategy to develop a plan to quit his job in one year — and …

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January 17, 2021January 17, 2021 Books Critical thinking Habits Learning Mindset Skill development

How to Be a More Critical Reader

Essential Habits is a book borne out of my interest in getting at specific takeaways from books. A few years ago, my very smart friend …

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January 1, 2021January 1, 2021 Critical thinking Habits Management consulting Mindset Work

How to Become an Expert — Lessons Learned From My Time in Management Consulting

We have an inside joke in management consulting: ace a project and you immediately become the expert on that subject, even if that was the …

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October 3, 2020October 3, 2020 Entrepreneurship Habits Life Mindset Skill development Wealth

Six Things I Learned from Naval Ravikant

Advice on building wealth, becoming a better thinker, happiness, health, and philosophy Do you know those questions where if you could have dinner with anyone …

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September 1, 2020September 1, 2020 Books Habits Life Mindset Review

The Emotional Audit and how it can Help you Enrich your Life

How to enrich your life by reviewing and expanding your emotional range Recently, I was reading Giant Steps by Anthony Robbins, and there was an interesting exercise …

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August 28, 2020August 28, 2020 Crazy ideas Creativity Habits Life Mindset Skill development Work

Six powerful strategies to generate new ideas

The best way to get a good idea is to get a lot of ideas — Linus Pauling Something that I have noticed while I …

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August 26, 2020August 26, 2020 Habits Mindset Work

Horseshoes and hand grenades as an approach to starting a career

One of my elementary school teachers often said that close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. He said this whenever a student would answer …

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August 25, 2020August 25, 2020 Books Crazy ideas Creativity Habits Learning Mindset

What the heck is an anti-library and why would you want one?

I was first introduced to the anti-library through Nassim Taleb’s work, the Black Swan. In fact, he was introduced to the concept through writer Umberto …

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August 24, 2020August 24, 2020 Critical thinking Habits Life Life stories Work

A big mistake at work and the lessons I learned

Back in university, shortly after graduating, I worked for a summer as an orientations coordinator. Orientations, for a lot of universities, is huge and is …

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