Have you ever got stuck while trying to solve a problem, only to take a break from it and have the solution come to you effortlessly?
You probably have.
But how often?Continue Reading…
January 26, 2014 54 Comments
How to Solve Problems While You Rest
January 19, 2014 77 Comments
Should You Talk About Your Goals or Not?
In the past 19 days I’ve heard this question get talked about repeatedly by random people. It’s haunted me everywhere I’ve gone.
Some people have told me that I should talk to other people about my goals, while others have said that I absolutely should not.
But no one has been very convincing in telling me why I should do one or the other.
I’ve noticed that there’s a surprisingly large amount of dogma, blind following, and regurgitation of gurus’ opinionsContinue Reading…
January 9, 2014 67 Comments
How to Use Social Proof to Your Advantage
I’ve gotten treated much better by people in the past six months than I have ever before.
Why is this?
While it’s true that I may have got smarter or better looking during this period of time, it’s not a full explanation. So, what have I done to deserve this?Continue Reading…
January 5, 2014 86 Comments
How Successful People Read Online
In the last year I’ve thought a lot about how people in our society take in information.
We get most of our information from reading. The problem is that we retain almost none of that information due to Continue Reading…
December 30, 2013 64 Comments
How to Keep a Book for Summarizing Books
Merry Christmas friends!
What you do when nobody’s watching matters.
How you spend your holidays matter.
How you spend your free time matters.
These things matter because they say something about who you are.
When you’re at work or in school you have an external pressure imposed on you to perform. On your free time you don’t. Therefore, this is the time when your real self shines through.Continue Reading…
December 22, 2013 48 Comments
Use Dunbar’s Number to Create Your Own Reality
“What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons. You’re born alone and you die alone and this world just drops a bunch of rules on top of you to make you forget those facts. But I never forget. I’m living like there’s no tomorrow, because there isn’t one..”
– Don Draper
I walk into my corridor kitchen only to find people laying in the couch watching TV. They are watching some Harry Potter movie. They start complaining loudly —in a surprised way— when suddenly the movie breaks for commercial.
A fat girl yells out:
—I love Christmas because this is the time of the year that they show the best movies!
I’m thinking to myself: what, you can’t download movies any day of the week? Or is it that you don’t even know what kind of movies you prefer to watch?Continue Reading…
December 15, 2013 53 Comments
Take More Action and Crush Perfectionism by Following this Principle
I’ve been rather busy for the past few months.
I know what you’re thinking.
But Ludvig, being busy is no indicator of productivity. It’s about working smarter, not harder. I think you’re confusing this.
No I’m not.Continue Reading…
December 8, 2013 46 Comments
How to Get on the Radar of Successful People
I felt golden.
I’d got a fully paid graduate job while doing my thesis at a major marketing company – a job many of my peers would kill for.
Then it happened.
Just a few weeks before I was supposed to start working, suddenly the HR person I’d been in contact with told me that due to the major restructuring going on in the company there was no longer any spot there for me.Continue Reading…
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