If you feel weak and powerless then start making decisions. Don’t say that you like all music except that one genre none of your friends like either. Decide that you have a favorite band and song and find joy in defending them. Don’t just eat breakfast mindlessly, take a moment to decide what you want…

Did you know that some people get depressed because of a lack of connection and others get depressed because of a lack of capability? And if you try to get someone to connect when they need to solve problems they will get more depressed. And if you try to solve the problems of someone who…

If you want to grow as a person you have to be willing to balance persistence with a willingness to change. There are times when you’ll need to keep doing something even when you don’t want to. There are just as many times when you’ll have to let go of an old habit to do…

Chaos is the garden. Order is the fence. The garden is a place full of beauty and creativity where anything can happen. The fence is an impressive structure that’s impenetrable and harsh. But a garden can’t create beautiful things if it’s not protected. Also, it will take over everything if it’s not contained. And a…

It turns out what makes you not miserable is also what makes you not poor and it’s this. Only compare yourself to people that are better than you in ways that you can change. Social media can make you better and it can make you worse. If you follow people that are better than you…

It’s really wild. We learn pretty young that working hard and waiting will get us what we want. And if you’ve really learned this lesson then you actually want to work hard and are willing to wait to get the result you want. But human physiology isn’t actually built that way. You don’t get a…

Some people don’t need to push their limits. They need to limit their push. If you’re ambitious and you work so hard that you’re tired most of the time then you’re probably pushing too hard and in so many places that you’re making yourself stupid. You’re the person who has to make better decisions if…

mistakes are very strange creatures. we call them failures but they tell us what to do next. they’re teachers and guides. they’re every single drug that didn’t pass the clinical trials so that we could get the right ones administered. They’re every single ad that didn’t work in the split testing process. They’re every single…

the cold is the big black. it’s the inevitable end that no one can escape. and when we feel the sensation of cold a part of us knows this. when the ice touches our skin something deep down inside of us says, be careful… run. but the sensation of cold is merely discomfort. and the…

You don’t get to do everything. You can’t do anything you want to when you grow up. And you can achieve things beyond your wildest dreams. The last generation raised us to believe we could do anything and they were right in the sense that humans are infinitely variable. But in their pursuit to make…