1. The world is trying to keep you stupid. From bank fees to interest rates to miracle diets, people who are not educated are easier to get money from and easier to lead. Educate yourself as much as ...
It is natural for all human beings, in a normal society, to avoid eye contact. This is a result of living in close quarters, very close together, closer than we ever have in all of history.Eye contac...
I’m a lucky guy. I know this.I’ve been fortunate, over the years, to have many mentors, friends, and collaborators that care about me and my work. The people I’ve met, without quest...
There is a new feature here, as of today, called HOMEWORK. It will be available every Friday.All homework is designed to be easy to do, and the purpose of homework, over time, is to help you live a b...
1. I spent 6 years in call centres, from about 19 to 25, doing nothing with my life. Looked like shit, felt like shit. No achievements or lasting happiness whatsoever.2. I believed that I could do ev...
Hi, and welcome back to regular writing. :)I just spent probably three months finishing up my third book with Portfolio/Penguin. It was damn stressful but I’m glad we pushed ourselves. It’...
Imagine that you were running a race on one of three escalators. Which race would you rather be in?1. An escalator that is helping you up.2. A broken one that is not moving at all.3. An escalator tha...
Yay, it’s Friday! Time to head home and relax after a week of hard work.1. Enter the front door of your home. Toss off your shoes. Notice, lying beneath, a pair of boots you have worn only once. Shru...
I recently realized that I’d been reading a book every week now for about 5 years straight. It kind of made me wonder: what did I really learn? Am I smarter than I used to be? I started to wond...
Hey, happy Monday. I have a cool idea and, if you have a minute, I’d love your help. I’m looking for the best quotes from the entirety of this blog for an experiment I’m going to tr...
Everybody talks about it. Nobody does it. If I’ve learned anything about the world by my age, it’s that most of the world, myself included, is composed of talkers, not doers. There are ve...
“Thank you my friend I have never met. […] I found your blog post “fuck the internet” on a day I was in a bad way. […] You know what the best part is? You didn’t even charge m...
The reality of publishing is extremely strange to me. Sometimes I’ll walk into a bookstore and consider whether I’ll want to buy something. I’ll sit there, and consider it for a whi...
1. True wisdom and insight is always free. 2. Give your power over to no one. 3. Going into the unknown is how you expand what is known. 4. Get a library card. 5. Spend more time around people that b...
Hi Chris. :) You’ve traveled to almost 175 countries. You go to places where you don’t know the language over and over again, which tends to make people nervous. You also teach people to quit their j...
Hey, you. Yes, you. Do yourself a favour. This year, for once, I have a suggestion, and I’d like you to take it. This year, this once, it’s time you used your New Year’s resolution ...
For most, the man needs no introduction. But in case you do, here’s one anyway. Leo Babauta is the founder of ZenHabits, a massively popular blog that is considered by Time Magazine to be one o...
Today my new book, The Flinch, is launched on Seth Godin’s Domino Project. It’s about how to push your own barriers and how to do things that scare you. Writing the book was hardest thing...
Every little while, technology is democratized to a point where everyone is once again put on equal footing. It happened at the printing press. It happened with blogs. It happened with podcasting, an...
Games are useful. Games are fun. Yet, somehow, gamification itself has become the butt of almost every internet joke I’ve heard recently. It isn’t because games aren’t useful. They ...
Watching big-time bloggers put out books really is something else. Case in point: yesterday, Mark Sisson, a huge paleo blogger, released a book called the 21-Day Total Body Transformation. Naturally,...
The other day I was walking around my neighbourhood when a woman stopped me to ask for directions. “Where is de Courcelle street,” she asked. I pointed her in the right direction, and lef...
1000 years ago, the amount of moves a peasant could take were limited. He understood the risk in his world well, but it isn’t because he was super smart. It’s because his world was small....
The list for what has never been done is very short. If you’re looking for something new before you even begin, you may as well abandon the quest. You will probably fail. Everyone has a voice n...
This is the information age. Anything you want to learn how to do, you can. If you want to ride a bike, there’s a 26 step process for doing it right here. Yet every day, people look at the step...
You are not born to live a long life. You are not born to succeed. You are born to go through puberty, reproduce, and die. Exerting effort for any other purpose than producing more children is a devi...
Many generations ago, long before Blackberries and Starbucks, there was a time when we could only interact with other people while they were still alive. Things now are not so simple. First, writing ...
Tweeting is not a business model. Rainbows and unicorns will not cut it. The universe doesn’t care about you. Its natural state is to want to wipe you off the planet. You are temporary. In fact...
If this isn’t the slogan for your life, it should be. You were born extremely dumb. There is no question about it. So the first side of the equation is set; it’s the second you have to wo...
You will not achieve anything unless you are capable of this fundamental act. As a child, you excelled at it. You snuck out at night, smoked when you weren’t supposed to, and made out with some...
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