Creativity requires silence. It requires that you stop your activity long enough to get bored. We live in a world of distraction. And we have minds that fear the silence so much that we don’t let ourselves notice when we’re avoiding the quiet moments that spark ideas. Anxiety is future problem solving and boredom is…

Being slow to anger is a positive trait. But if you tend to get angry after you’ve had a conversation and the other person has already left, if have to do the math and carry the one to figure out if you’re angry, that’s not being slow to anger. That’s being out of touch with…

When having a conversation try to establish positive intent and when the other person is struggling to come up with the right words encourage them to say it badly. Words are tremendously difficult. And talking with someone with the assumption that you have to phrase everything correctly tends to make people struggle with what to…

It’s easy to not be impressed when you see someone do something revolutionary because we see revolutions every day on Netflix. But actual revolutionary behavior, inventions, networks, and movements that change the world… These things are far more rare. And you’re more affected by the fictional stories you watch and read than you think. If…

You can’t operate from a moral high ground that makes you weak. We do many things to make ourselves look better. And some of those actions make us strong and some make us weak. Very often, we will take on a viewpoint because it’s popular that makes us feel worse on the inside. But it’s…

There are many tools at your disposal to help you level up. But we tend to pick the serious ones. The stakes are high, our lives hang in the balance, so we become serious and considered in our actions. But most top performers are playful in some way and it gives them an edge. Teams,…

Your instinct to worry about a problem is something you usually put on a pedestal as the way to come up with an answer to move forwards in life. But it’s often a luxury item that wastes your time and causes anxiety. Decisive forward motion often results in the exact thing you find yourself trying…

If you’re intermediate at a skill, and you add something to your skill set that will make you better. Your performance will drop while you’re integrating the new skill. Learning the next skill makes you worse. Because it throws you off balance. You’re comfortable with the skill set you already have. And learning something new…

There’s a phenomenon that’s really important to know. People don’t need much. But what they need, they need a whole lot. You don’t have a lot of needs. But the things that you need are extremely important. If you can figure out what they are and meet them, you start to move forward extremely quickly.…

If you need to get something done and you’re not doing it because you’re wasting your time on meaningless entertainment. Then it’s probably not the thing you need to get done or the entertainment that’s the problem. It’s the fact that you have nothing in between those two things. Doing stuff is hard. And entertainment…