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How I got Ripped in 2 Years by Following These 13 Principles
School is for Fools: 10 Reasons the Education System is a Failure
The 11 Maxims You Should Live By
23 Excellent Books You Should Read
Worldly Wisdom from Lee Kuan Yew: 9 Lessons You Can Learn from LKY
Nothing New Under the Sun: 8 Historic Patterns
How to Keep a Digital Commonplace
Best Articles:
These are some of the best articles I’ve written. But they’re harder to skim than the once above.
How to Formulate Your Framework of Learning
Be Who You Want to be by 30 or be Broken Down by Homeostasis
How to Study History (The Top Ten Tips)
More Articles – By Topic:
Breaking out of Homeostasis:
- Breaking out of Homeostasis: The Lifestyle
- Foreword: By Investor Mikael Syding
- Higher Order Thinking: Your Ticket to the Cognitive Elite
- All About Homeostasis.
How to Start a Commonplace:
- How to Start Commonplacing
- 4 Famous Commonplaces (Rockefeller, Clinton, Onassis, Reagan)
- The Six Fundamentals of a Commonplace System
- All About Commonplacing.
Productivity and Practical Advice:
- How I Doubled My Creative Output for Less Than $30
- How to Solve Problems While You Rest
- Stop Watching TV, Get a Grip, and Reclaim Your Dunbar’s Number
- How to Keep a Review File
- How to Break the Damaging Hormonal Cycle of Sugar, Stimulants, Bad Food, and Sleep
- What I Eat and Why (Complete List of Healthy Foods)
- Free Guide: The Fundamentals of Fitness, Health, Muscle-building and Fat-Loss
- Free Guide: Overcome Information Overload
- Free Guide: Energy, Focus, Productivity
Learn Faster:
- The Art of Optimal Reading
- How Successful People Read Online
- How to Keep a “Summary Book” Over What You Read
- The 6 Steps of My Learning System (And How to Build Your Own)
- Free Guide: Learning Machine – How to Supercharge Your Learning
Become Smarter:
- Free Guide: 60-Second Mind – How to Think Clearly and Make Good Decisions
- How to Study History for Business and Investing
- How to Think Like an Investor
- Conversation with Billionaire Martin Sandquist
Decision-Making Principles:
- Improve Your Decision-making with These 10 Clever Principles
- Stop Being a Perfectionist: Use Colin Powell’s Heuristic Instead
- Become More Efficient By Using 3 Techniques for Problem-Solving
Self-Improvement:
- The Ultimate Guide to Motivation: Start a Winner Effect
- Success is Hard: 7 Evolutionary Mismatches You Must Overcome
- Learning From History Boosts Your Self-Improvement
- Nature vs Nurture: 9 Things You Need to Know About Natural Talents
Motivation:
- Enter the Gauntlet
- Become Someone Worth Helping
- Free Guide: Transform Your Life
- How to Overcome Fear of Failure And Develop The Will to Win
- Eradicate the “Magic Pill” Mentality
- Why You Should Compare Yourself to The Greatest Men in History
Unconventional Ideas:
- The Thoreau Test: Can You Live on 6 Weeks’ Work?
- Noble indulgence: The Ultimate Trick for Self-Delusion
- The “Non-Woo” Version of The Law of Attraction (AKA: Neuroscience)
Questioning the Status Quo:
- Proxy Society: Is the Average Person Built for Capitalism?
- Why it Pays to Be a Contrarian
- How to Be Real in a World of Fakes
- Don’t Think Too Highly of Human Nature
- 30 Days Without Multitasking or Music
- Contrast to Past: is Modern Man More or Less Motivated Than 300+ Years Ago?
- How Much Should You Read and Why?
- The Real Reason You Should Leave Behind a Legacy
Future Skills:
- Free Guide: How to Get Ahead in Your Early Career
- Knowledge Worker: Ask Yourself These Questions to Gain Self-Knowledge
- 20 Future Skills And My Selection of Expert Advice (from Podcast Guests)
- The 40-Year Old Prophecy That Came True (Education, Career, Science, Internet Subcultures)
- Q&A: 32 Viable Areas for Creating Wealth
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Interesting Conversations From My Podcast Future Skills:
Philosopher Alexander Bard
Psychologist Barry Schwartz
Macroeconomist Pippa Malmgren:
Neuroscientist Elkhonon Goldberg:
Angel Investor Fabrice Grinda:
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