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Know Your Limits: The Law of Grandiosity
Editor's note: This is an excerpt from Robert Greene's new book, The Laws of Human Nature. We ...
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Podcast #455: How to Create the Perfect Morning Routine
How you start something is often how you finish it, and that couldn't be truer than for the trajectory ...
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Manvotional: Sitting in the Seat of Judgement
"Sitting in the Seat of Judgement" From The Crown of Individuality, 1909 By William George ...
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Podcast #454: A Magician’s Search for Wonder in the Modern World
Magicians usually become magicians because they experienced a sense of wonder seeing a cool trick as a ...
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Does Stoicism Extinguish the Fire of Life?
In August 1937, Ernest Hemingway stopped by the office of Max Perkins, his book editor at Scribner's. ...
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Podcast #451: The Daring Escape Artists of WWI
When you think of wartime prison escapes, what comes to mind? Probably the breakouts attempted by ...
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The 7 Habits: Sharpen the Saw
Welcome back to our series that summarizes, expands, and riffs on each of the seven habits laid out ...
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Podcast #447: On Grand Strategy
The ancient Greek poet Archilochus said, "A fox knows many things, but a hedgehog one important ...
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Podcast #445: How to Close the Character Gap
Are people mostly good or mostly bad? We're apt to think of ourselves as good people, while thinking ...
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Sources of Existential Angst
When the CDC reported a few months ago that suicide rates had risen over the last two decades in nearly ...
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Podcast #444: How to Use the Procrastination Equation to Start Getting Things Done
Procrastination can be a big stumbling block to our success in life. If you’re a student and you put ...
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The 7 Habits: Synergy (Beyond the Eye-Rolling Buzzword)
Welcome back to our monthly series that summarizes, expands, and riffs on each of the seven ...
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Podcast #443: What Building Your Own Coffin Teaches You About Life, Death, and Meaning
When David Giffels was 50 years old and completely healthy, he decided to build his own coffin with ...
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Henry Rollins’ Iron and the Soul
Editor's note: This essay by Henry Rollins was originally published in Details Magazine in 1994. Iron ...
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Podcast #440: The 3 Great Untruths That Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
If you haven’t been living under a rock, you’ve likely seen headlines about the tumultuous ...
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The Spartan Way: The Mindset and Tactics of a Battle-Ready Warrior
This article series is now available as a professionally formatted, distraction free ebook to read ...
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Podcast #438: Developing Real-World Situational Awareness
If you found yourself in a situation with a violent attacker, would you know what to do? While it's ...
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The 7 Habits: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood
Welcome back to our monthly series that summarizes, expands, and riffs on each of the seven ...
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Podcast #436: The Worth of War
You’ve probably heard that Edwin Starr song “War, What is It Good For?” Well, my guest today ...
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Podcast #435: How to Achieve Hyperfocus
We all want to be more productive. And when we buckle down to do so, we typically try to figure out ...
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