The Connection Goldmine: How Entrepreneur Retreats Rig the Odds of Success in Your Favor
Laughter around the dinner table, someone to call when you get the big news, helping hands when you move — these are some of the joys of having a strong community. But there’s another one that entrepreneurs should take special note of: building community is the fast track to success.
How to Stay Motivated: 5 Secrets to Harness Superhuman Persistence When Overcoming a New Challenge
When you start a new business, the road can be a long one. But it isn’t infinite. So as long as you can keep walking the road, you’ll get there eventually.
The trick is persistence. But how do you get the persistence you need to overcome all the challenges along the way? The secrets below can help.
How to Find Your Inner Genius: 5 Strategies to Quiet Your Self Critic and Unleash Your True Creative Potential
The word genius comes from Latin, where it means “a guardian deity or spirit which watches over each person from birth…” It’s helpful to think like this: your genius is already with you. So why can it be so hard to get back to it?
Your inner critic is getting in the way. That’s why I’ve put together a handful of strategies to quiet the critic inside and unleash your genius.
How the Principle of Alloys Works with Relationships and Team Building
This is the principle of alloys. In engineering, you make an alloy by combining metal with another element. This creates some of the most important material in our modern world, like steel.
Steel, in its simplest form, is iron mixed with carbon. The result is something much stronger than either component. It doesn’t rust as easily as iron, and it performs much better under tension and compression.
The Z-Factor: Set Yourself Up for Compounding Growth
If you put in hard work, expect to be rewarded.
And if you keep plowing ahead with hard work, how far can you go? It turns out that this approach leads to two things: limited results and burnout. To really experience compound growth, you have to find ways to maximize the pay off of your efforts.
Make Your New Year's Resolution an Adventure
What if you stopped trying to make yourself “better” and instead made your life better?
Those kinds of resolutions still deliver big, positive changes to your life — but they do it in the most exciting way possible.
Creativity Beats Competition: How to Be a Big Fish in a Less Crowded Market
Many people start companies thinking they need to directly challenge competitors, and others who don’t have the stomach to put others out of business avoid chasing their dreams. This leads to failure in the first instance and failure to launch in the second.
To succeed in the market, you need to use creativity — not to out-compete others, but to avoid competition in the first place.
How to Plan for a Life-Changing Year (and Actually Achieve It!)
What if you did something every year that would change your life forever? With the right approach, you could orchestrate a 12-month-long odyssey into passion, insight and personal breakthroughs.
Adventure: The Rare Ingredient For Happiness Science Thinks You Need More of
It all begins with an idea.
How to Use the First Principles Mental Model to Unlock Unstoppable Creativity
First-principles are the fundamental aspects of a situation. In a game of chess, the rules are the first-principles. In a painting, the way colors mix. In an economy — well there are heated debates about those first-principles…