100 Days of Writing Every Day
One hundred days of daily posts: how it sharpens your attention, why one idea per post beats five, and what the habit of writing every day gives you.
Personal Growth
The Results You Are Looking For Are in the Work You Avoid
For years I put off the actions that would have taken me to the next level. Success in anything is 80% psychology and only 20% mechanics and strategy.
Do You Compare Yourself to Other People?
On social media we only see the slice of someone's life they chose to show. Why comparing yourself to others ends in suffering, and who to compare yourself with instead.
How Do You Change Your Life?
There is one area of life that pulls all the others along behind it like a locomotive. It is our calling and the work that flows out of it.
There Is No Justice
There is no justice in relationships, in the economy or in geopolitics. Why fighting for it burns us out, and what stepping down as judge gives back.
A Ban on Joy
The psyche shields us from traumatic news and cuts off everything that used to bring pleasure along with it. Why the body still needs good emotions in wartime.
Why Don't We Set Goals for Ourselves?
Past goal lists didn't come true, and nobody wants to repeat that. So people stop setting goals at all — and end up with an even deeper disappointment.
The Height of a Promise Is the Height of the Fall
When we promise something and don't deliver, we fall from the height of our own commitments. Why it's better to promise rarely and always keep your word.
When Fear Paralyzes You
Some fear is concrete and saves your life. Other fear is a phantom: it warns you about nothing and only paralyzes your will. How to tell them apart.