"How to Get Rich (without getting lucky):"
4 Habits of People Who Follow Their Dreams
5 Keys of Inspired Excellence
5 Lifelong Lessons from The Magic of Thinking Big by David Schwartz
5 Things Young Folks Should Do
6 Shocking Daily Lifestyle Mistakes That Everybody Commits!
7 High-leverage life skills they should teach in grade school (xlnt)
7 Strange Questions That Help You Find Your Life Purpose
8 Alternatives to College
8 Messages to Teach Young Women and Girls About Happiness
8 Rare Gems from Heidi Roizen on Building a Fulfilling Life and Career
8 Simple Steps to Extreme Personal Productivity
9 Easy-To-Steal Habits Of The Super Successful
9 Learnings from 9 Years of Brain Pickings
10,000 Hours with Reid Hoffman: What I Learned
10 Key Principles of the Spartan Way
10 Life Lessons From The Taoist Master Lao Tzu (Taoism, xlnt)
10 Principles to Live an Antifragile Life
10 Things That Will Change Your Life Immediately
10 Things Unstoppable People Do That Average People Don't
12 Essential Rules to Live More Like a Zen Monk
12 Things Happy People Do Differently
13 Behaviors of High Trust
19 Great Truths My Grandmother Told Me on Her 90th Birthday
23 Lessons I Learned From Robert Greene On Strategy, Mastery And Power
25 Excellent Pieces of Advice That Most People Ignore
30 Behaviors of Unstoppable People
33 Things I Stole From People Smarter Than Me
36 Ways to Live Differently (xlnt)
43 life lessons at age 43
50 Ideas That Changed My Life
68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice
100 Rules — Personal Philosophy
100 ways to slightly improve your life without really trying
a 'I really know better than to post this post...'
A Brief History of Thought: A Philosophical Guide to Living (2011)
A Centenarian's Advice to Young Women: Figure Out What You Want
A Letter To My Younger Self
A simple way to break a bad habit
A Wonderful Life: Insights on Finding a Meaningful Existence (2020)
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things (1988)
All the Gold Stars: Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive (2023)
Always Swim over Your Head
Always Take the High Road
Am I the Asshole? (2013 AITA)
Anne Lamott: 12 truths I learned from life and writing
Annie Dillard on Choosing Presence Over Productivity
April’s Life Advice for Jasper
Be the Person Your Dog Thinks You Are
Billionaire Ray Dalio: You will ‘inevitably succeed’ if you follow these 5 steps
Blaze Your Own Trail: An Interactive Guide to Navigating Life with Confidence, Solidarity, and Compassion
Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World (2015)
Bross's Seven Keys to Financial Happiness
Caitlin Moran's Posthumous Advice for Her Daughter
Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life (1992)
Checklist of Rationality Habits
Cortney Warren: Honest Liars: The Psychology of Self-Deception
Dear dads: Your daughters told me about their assaults. This is why they never told you.
Define your zone of genius
Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving (2020)
Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.
Do You Want to Be Known For Your Writing, or For Your Swift Email Responses?
Don't Worry What Others Think of You
Don’t Just Live Your Life, Optimize It*
Easy choices, hard life. Hard choices, easy life.
Elizabeth Gilbert on Distinguishing Between Hobbies, Jobs, Careers, & Vocation (xlnt)
Emotional Success: The Power of Gratitude, Compassion, and Pride (2018)
Empowerment: The Art of Creating Your Life as You Want It
Engage in Your Highest Leverage Activities
Eric’s Nine Questions to Ask Yourself on Your Birthdays
Esther Perel: The secret to desire in a long-term relationship
Five Farnam Street Principles
Fear Setting (opposite of goal setting)
Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
Finding Balance in Your Life
Finding Your Life Purpose
For the young who want to (xlnt)
Four Aspects of an Effective Apology
Four Basic Rules for Successful Silo-skipping
Four Principles for Generating Good Fortune
Generation Transfer (2017)
George Saunders's Advice to Graduates
Getting Real: 10 Truth Skills You Need to Live an Authentic Life
Happy Brain: How to Overcome Our Neural Predispositions to Suffering (xlnt)
How Can I Add Value to Everyone I Meet? (Expecting Nothing in Return)
How do you “deliberately practice” your job?
How Should We Live?: Great Ideas from the Past for Everyday Life
How the Japanese Concept of Ichigo Ichie Can Tune You in to Your Life
How to Discover Your Values (and Use Them to Make Better Decisions)
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life (2018)
How to Find Fulfilling Work
How to Get Flat Abs, Have Amazing Sex and Rule the World in 8 Easy Steps
How to Get Rich (without getting lucky) (xlnt thread)
How to Have a Good Day: Harness the Power of Behavioral Science to Transform Your Working Life (2016)
How to Live an Amazing Life
How to Live: 27 Conflicting Answers and One Weird Conclusion (2021 book)
How to Make the Most of Your 24 Hours
How to navigate our uncertain future (2019)
How to Take Control of Your Reality (xlnt)
How to Win a Nobel Prize: Notes from Richard Hamming’s Talk on Doing Great Research
How To Be Successful (13 Thoughts, xlnt)
How To Make Quantum Leaps Personally And Professionally
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
How We React to Events Is Incredibly Important
How You Do Anything Is How You Do Everything
I meditated 15 hours a day for 6 months straight with one of the toughest Buddhist monks on the planet. Here's what I learned: (thread)
I’m a psychology expert in Finland, the No. 1 happiest country in the world—here’s the real meaning of life in 5 words (xlnt)
If not intelligence, what does lead to creative achievement? (list)
If there's something bothering you, ask yourself whether it will matter in one month. If not, let it go right now.
If you see someone without a smile, give them yours.
If You Don’t Prioritize Your Life, Someone Else Will (2012)
In Relationships, Be Deliberate
Isaac Lidsky: What reality are you creating for yourself?
It's About Damn Time: How to Turn Being Underestimated into Your Greatest Advantage (2020)
John Steinbeck on Falling in Love: A 1958 Letter
Julian Treasure: How to speak so that people want to listen
Letters to a Young Technologist
Life Is What You Make It: Find Your Own Path to Fulfillment
Listening Below the Noise: A Meditation on the Practice of Silence
Living a Good (and Healthy) Life
Looping for Understanding
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2003)
Make yourself meaningful to others.
Manage Inflammation and Insulin
Managing Oneself (1999 HBR article)
Money and Love: An Intelligent Roadmap for Life's Biggest Decisions (2023)
My Life Advice for Jasper
Neil Gaiman: Make Good Art (xlnt)
Now and then, break out the fancy china and drink the good wine for no reason at all.
Oliver Burkeman: New Year’s resolutions worth making
Oliver Burkeman's last column: the eight secrets to a (fairly) fulfilled life
Pathways to Possibility: Transforming Our Relationship with Ourselves, Each Other, and the World (2016)
Patrick Collison's Advice
Poet David Whyte's Questions That Have No Right to Go Away
Puruṣārtha (objects of human pursuit)
Rapoport’s Rules to Criticize Someone Constructively
Raptitude.com – Getting Better at Being Human
Saying Yes to Opportunities
Second Wind: Navigating the Passage to a Slower, Deeper and More Connected Life (2013)
Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (1989)
Seven Skills of Great Workers
Six Suggestions about the Road Ahead
Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.
Solve for Happy: Engineering Your Path to Joy (2017)
Sometimes it's important to lie fallow for a time waiting for the 'right question' to appear, rather than to engage in uninspiring work and miss the important opportunity when in comes.
Stop Chasing Money and Start Chasing Richness
Take 30 Seconds after Every Significant Event to Note What Mattered
Tell Me More: On the Fine Art of Listening (pdf)
Tell your partner you love them every night before falling asleep. Someday you'll find the other side of the bed empty and wish you could.
Ten lifelong lessons of homeschooling (xlnt)
The (25) Principles of Adult Behavior (1977)
The 6 Habits of Kind, Generous People
The 10 PathNorth Questions
The Art and Science of Spending Money (xlnt)
The Best Tool for Self-Insight Ever Invented
The Biggest Mistakes People Make When Choosing a Life Partner
The Cave You Fear to Enter Holds the Treasure You Seek
The College of Chinese Wisdom
The data-driven answer to life is as follows: Be with your love, on an 80-degree and sunny day, overlooking a beautiful body of water, having sex.
The Kindest Person in the Room is Often the Smartest, Most Beautiful Message: Life Lessons #viral (xlnt)
The Legacy Project: Lessons for Living from the Wisest Americans
The magic of doing $10,000 per hour work
The Meaning of Life (2014)
The Monkey Business (the 9 "rules" at Eden)
The most courageous decision that you can make each day is to be in a good mood.
The Most Important Question Of Your Life
The Munger Operating System: A Life That Really Works
The only metric of success that really matters is the one we ignore (xlnt)
The only technique to learn something new
The Passion Recipe: Four (Oops, Five) Steps To Total Fulfillment
The Persistence of Yellow: Inspiration for Living Brightly (2000)
The Play Ethic: A Manifesto For a Different Way of Living (2004)
The Power of Meaning: Finding Fulfillment in a World Obsessed with Happiness
The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.
The Pursuit of Interestingness
The Role of Luck in Life Success Is Far Greater Than We Realized
The School of Life (2008)
The secret to handling pressure like astronauts, Navy SEALs, and samurai
The Six Habits of Highly Empathic People
The Strength of Being Misunderstood
The Student Success Manifesto: How to Create a Life of Passion, Purpose, and Prosperity
The Way Of Transition: Embracing Life's Most Difficult Moments
Things you learn dating Cate Hall
Three Practices Men Need to Engage In
Tim Ferriss: Why you should define your fears instead of your goals
Tim Smit, Eden Project, part 1 (Kick-starting the Sustainable Economy - xlnt)
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tools of Titans — Testing The “Impossible”: 17 Questions That Changed My Life
University of Texas at Austin 2014 Commencement Address
Unsolicited Advice for My Three Sons, In No Particular Order (xlnt)
Vonnegut on Doing Things Because You Like Them, Not Because You Excel
Werner Herzog on Creativity, Self-Reliance, Making a Living of What You Love, and How to Turn Your Ideas Into Reality
What are some things you realize as you get older?
What Do You Want to Be when You Grow Up?
What I Wish Someone Had Told Me
What My Harvard College Reunion Taught Me About Life
What the Second-Happiest People Get Right (xlnt)
Why I Taught Myself to Procrastinate (xlnt)
YOLO (You Only Live Once)
"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."
"The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it."
100 Things to Do Before You Die
A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life
Are We Alone in the Universe?
Ben Dunlap talks about a passionate life
Big Questions Around the Future of Work
Die With Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life (2020)
Does Technology Make Us More or Less Literate? (or dumb?)
Doing Good and Doing Well
Emotion and Membership Trump Reason Most of the Time. Stories Are the Vessel.
Encyclopedia of Life (2008)
Everybody Dies, But Not Everybody Lives
Follow Your Heart Because It Knows You Best
Forces that Fed the Productivity Pay Gap
Healing America After (During!) Trump
Hot Questions ChatGPT’s Virality Raises (Dec. 2022):
Influential Schools and Intellectual Circles
Inspired Excellence (2013)
Jobs Replaced by Automation and More
Knowing You're Going to Die Soon
Life in Extreme Environments
Life is What Happens To You While You’re Busy Making Other Plans (Lennon, quoting others)
Make Your Own Lunch: How to Live an Epically Epic Life of Epicness (2011)
My Aha!s About Soil and Growing/Raising Food
No more yes. It's either HELL YEAH! or no.
People Who Damaged Their Reputations
Political/Economic Doctrines
Ric Elias: 3 things I learned while my plane crashed
Socio-Politico-Economic Myths
Sustainable Agriculture (farming)
Sustainable Living Dilemmas
Ten Rules for Being Human
The 5 Essentials: Using Your Inborn Resources to Create a Fulfilling Life (2013)
The Curse of Knowledge (not being able to imagine not knowing something)
The Four Idols of the Mind (of Francis Bacon)
The Social Side of Health & Wellness
The Time You Have (In JellyBeans)
Theories of Everything (TOEs in philosophy)
today is a good day to die
Trump’s Legal Team Is Enmeshed in a Tangle of Possible Conflicts
Useful Thinking Frameworks and Mental Models
Violence Against Women and Girls
Ways That the Tech Industry Is Killing Us
Ways We Snipped Long Term Relationships in Finance, Paving the Way for the GFC
What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World (2009)
What Is the Meaning of Life?
What my Vietnamese family feeds me in a day
What Should I Do with the Rest of My Life?
What Special Someday Are We Saving For? (1985 essay)
Why I Believe Automation Is Taking Us into a Global Crisis (2015)
Why I Told My Husband He Could Walk Away
Writing Your Own Autobiography
Wundt's Leipzig Laboratory
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