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Do what you hate
One of the best pieces of advice I ever received was to invert "Follow your passion" into "Follow your frustration".
Good enough. My extraordinary life.
A good life is not a grand life of comfort, achievement and heights but a life of good enough. Good enough house, good enough work, good enough hobbies.
In defense of the generalist life
The path to greatnessIf you really want to be great at something. you have to truly care about it. If you want to be great in a particular, area, you have to obsess over it. A lot of people say they want to be great, but they are not willing
11 Frameworks for Career Development
The T-Shaped Strategyby Tim Brown "One thing I’ve noticed is that people can be held back by a lack of skills outside of their area of expertise. Careers aren’t just about rocketing upwards. Expanding horizontally gives you a stronger foundation to pursue vertical growth. I would argue that
Success is a mode of operation
Our society promotes a broken idea of success. Social media, magazines, Twitter, movies, the music industry, Hollywood all make us feel as if success is this sort of uphill pursuit of a happy ending (read: the American dream). Success is a point in time where we 'made it'. We are
The secret to getting shit done is getting shit started.
-Mostly- unconventional hacks from years of extremely successful procrastination.
How to be assertive
Assertiveness is the quality of being self-assured and confident without being aggressive. The way I best understand it is: the art to be one’s true self without crossing any boundaries into other people’s freedoms. It is not a trait that we are born with but instead something we
Getting in the Generalist Zone
I get a lot of funny looks from people when I talk about how I organize my life. During any given week, outside work, I might be wakeboarding, baking brownies, taking coding courses, working on blogs, trying out muay thai, working on software project ideas, taking online philosophy classes, bouldering
'Online' is not the future; and it will never be
We can throw as much tech as we want to our problems but the truth of the matter is that we are social animals that need physical human interaction. Tech, screens, the internet will never be the full answer to our deepest needs nor the complete solution to our problems.
You don’t find passion, you create it.
We are all looking for our passion but most of us got the concept all wrong.You are NOT born with passionsWe are NOT born with passions. We are born with talents. We do NOT find our passions. We find our talents which can give us a hint as to
If Work Feels Comfortable, You Are Doing It Wrong
The personal growth machine and how you can supercharge it using the 3 growth levers.
The price to pay
Growth, creativity, autheniticity, ambition, curiosity, morality. Theres always a price to pay. The question is: do you think it is worth it?Jenny YuThe price of ever-ending personal growth.You keep reinventing yourself. After a point you end up being a Ferrari in a highway of Toyotas. You have no