Tag Archive: goals
2009-12-20 Update: Don’t be a jerk toward others and take this article with a grain of salt as it has a lot of negativity in it.
It sucks when you fail hard. That sentence will get a lot of search traffic, right?
I had you all set up for an awesome article before I typed that opening. Seeing the unusual title, you expected me to share one of my massive failures in the first paragraph. Instead, you got a joke that is annoying rather than funny. The sad part is it probably will get search traffic.
50% of you are hovering over the …
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The biggest challenge in personal development is not creating systems—it’s using them. You can know perfectly well that you need to quit your job, change religions, stop eating animals, and move to Mexico, but unless you take action, you’ll never get anywhere. In fact, as you dilly-dally, a whiny voice in your head takes over, telling you to remain complacent. You think that’s the only voice that will talk to you, so you become friends with that voice out of desperation. But it turns out that if you deny friendship with that voice, a far better, intially quieter voice …
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One simple way to get motivated is to have someone else tell you you’ll fail.
Then, you’ll work really hard to do prove that person wrong.
This can be quite effective. Some people build their whole life around it, because it’s such a powerful source of motivation.
One common story you hear among hospital patients is this: “The doctor said I’d never walk again. Look at me now! I sure proved him wrong.”
I think there’s a doctor doing this as his full-time job. He drives between hospitals, goes to each patient’s room, and tells the patient he’ll never walk again. Even if the …
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2009-12-20 Update: I revoke this article because it is negative and condescending. Read it anyway if you want.
Dumb people ignore the rules.
Smart people follow the rules.
Smarter people make the rules.
Dumb people live below their potential.
Smart people live up to their potential.
Smarter people live beyond their potential.
Dumb people can’t focus.
Smart people multi-task.
Smarter people obsess.
Dumb people eat meat.
Smart people never eat meat.
Smarter people eat meat when they’re starving to death.
Dumb people don’t go to college.
Smart people go to college.
Smarter people think college is a joke.
Dumb people become lazy and fat.
Smart people stay fit by going to the gym.
Smarter people don’t pay others …
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