Why Accepting Mediocrity Can Help You Become More Productive
Do you ever have one of those days where you wake up early, sit in front of your laptop, and feel...
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The Nine Principles for Creating Practical Miracles I Learned From Dr. John Gray
Dr. John Gray, as you know, is the best-selling author of Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. One of the most interesting things I learned about John was that he used to be a celibate Hindu monk for nine years. He ate one...
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How To Learn From Your Mistakes so That You’re Improving Continuously
I love mistakes. Oh don’t get me wrong, I hate making mistakes. But mistakes themselves: I...
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Book Notes: Yes or No by Spencer Johnson
I never put much thought into making a decision. Maybe I create a pros and cons list. Or I do some...
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36 Lessons I Learned This Year
Every year, around my birthday, I like to write down the things I learned, one lesson for every...
Read MoreThings that I’m going to work on not doing for 2019
I have been watching this show on Netflix hosted by Marie Kondo called Tidying Up – Marie is a tidying consultant (what a cool name) and she goes around to different families who have trouble tidying up – they have a lot of clutter, or limited space or they generally do not feel organized. Marie […]
Read MoreSecrets of happy people I learned from Dr. David Niven
Happiness is a really interesting subject to me – it has many different forms and definitions and everybody thinks about happiness in different ways. The first time that I was exposed to Happiness as a form of study was The Happiness Project (a best seller by Gretchen Rubin) who took on the aforementioned Happiness Project […]
Read MoreAdam Robinson and his advice for college graduates
I recently had the chance to listen to an interview that Tim Ferriss conducted with Adam Robinson. A bit of background on Adam, he is an American educator, freelance author and a US Chess Federation life master. He co-founded The Princeton Review, wrote a best selling exam prep book Cracking the SAT and currently works […]
Read MoreMy favourite book of all time and why I read it almost every month
When I graduated in 2008, I somehow fortunately (or unfortunately) ended up looking for work during the middle of the recession. It was great trying to find work during that time – I was being rejected left and right. I had done coop while I was in university and even the coop companies did not […]
Read MoreDoing terrible work and other unconventional strategies for success
I know, the title seems like such click bait but over the last few weeks, I have listened to a few podcasts, heard some crazy stories and have started thinking about how we have all defined success and mapped out the exact steps to get there. For example, say you want to start a business […]
Read MoreWhat will you start today or what Seth Godin taught me about taking initiative
My bio has an interesting sentence – go ahead and look if you missed it. “I like poking the box.” What exactly does that mean? As a kid, you may have had a contraption or a toy of some sort where there was a button. When you pressed the button, the box made a sound […]
Read MoreThe geek guide to life or what science can teach you about life’s little problems
The geek guide to life was a book that I came across at the library and the cover attracted me because not only did it have a few ‘how-tos’ that grabbed my interest, there were tetris blocks on it which made me think that it was gaming related. While the cover and many of the […]
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