Someone once said it takes money to make money. They lied. By the time I was 12 I’d mastered the art of making money appear from thin air. I started by selling my lunch. Item by item. The sandwich my mum made me, a pack of crisps, and a...
You are VERY good at forming habits. I know this because you probably have ‘bad’ ones, and you return to them on-demand like a well-oiled machine. So the issue isn’t that you can’t keep up a good habit, it’s that you’ve become GREAT at keeping up...
Dispensing with the status quo is the key to escaping mediocrity.
I woke up at 04:30 and wrote a beautiful newsletter. Every word shone as though inspired by some higher power. It was immaculate. And then, for no reason at all, it disappeared. All my hard work was gone in a puff of smoke. And there's no great moral lesson...
What makes speakers like Gary V, Seth Godin and Neil deGrasse Tyson such crisp elocutors? It turns out it's the same muscle kids at your local high school use to dance or rap.
Sometimes in order to win the game you're optimising for, you must lose the ones you've been told were important.
