December 2007
12 posts
Fun Ways to Live Longer [Health] →
Living healthier and longer doesn’t have to mean salads and treadmills. Behavior expert Mark Stibich recommends a few “fun” healthy additions to your habits and diet, like drinking red wine, eating dark chocolate, smiling (even when you don’t want to), sleeping enough, and having more sex. These sound like New Year’s resolutions that are easy to keep.
Fun Ways to...
Rules of the Game →
I often joke that the same principles that I talk about can help you in any and all relationships. Just because my work is geared toward the workplace doesn’t mean the same doesn’t apply in a bar. That’s why I’m excited that I have plans in January to meet pick-up artist Neil Strauss, the author of The Game and the new book, Rules of The Game. Skeptical about what we have in common?...
Hip-hop video blogger Jay Smooth posts a ... →
Hip-hop video blogger Jay Smooth posts a great video about beating “the little hater” in your head that keeps you from getting your work done. Tx, Anil!
Practicing Simplified GTD [Feature] →
Whenever I talk to someone who knows anything about Lifehacker, whether it’s a reader or a journalist, this question is inevitable: “Do you follow Getting Things Done?” My answer is always a whole-hearted “Sorta.” I’ve read David Allen’s productivity bible a few times, and The David is onto something with his methodology. But as far as I’m...
The Dyslexia Advantage? →
In AWNM I wrote about studies showing that self-made millionaires are much more likely to be dyslexic than the rest of the population. Now comes a fresh round of research, reported in the New York Times and pointed out to me by my pal Chris Nippert-Eng, revealing that a whopping 35% of American small business owners identify themselves as dyslexic. The research was conducted by Julie Logan of...
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Relationships!Relationships!Relationships! →
As I, to some extent, resurrect things past, I have been murmuring & shouting …
Relationships!
Relationships!
Relationships!
Big brains!
Logical thinking!
The heart of the human difference!
Right?
Wrong!
The heart of the “human difference”?
Gossip!
The human brain is about nine times bigger, on a body-size-adjusted basis, than that of mammals in general. Obviously,...
"DNK"! →
Add to your vocabulary: “DNK.”
And thank the American intelligence services.
“DNK” is a new addition to the intelligence family, apparently following the Iraq WMD “intelligence” fiasco.
DNK?
Do Not Know.
In the past, the intelligence services were loath to admit that they didn’t know something; their remit is to know things, not to not know things.
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100 Ways to Succeed #99: →
Reward “DNK” When You DNK
Of course you don’t want to reward “I didn’t bother to …” laziness, but you do want to reward—Big Time—truth-telling. Hence, cheer publicly the person who admits, in front of a boss, that he or she “does not know” the facts here, or the answer to this or that. In fact, per the above, make a game (serious game!) out of...
Why the World Needs Heroes and Where They Are →
…or maybe it should be why I need heroes…
I’m not talking about the television series, although I do heart it very much. But I was watching the finale and waxing to myself why I do love it so much and came up with a really good reason: Hope.
I mean, we aren’t living in times of real despair or anything. Not me. I have a charmed, wonderful life. But there is despair. Lots of it. And I don’t...
10 mistakes that changed the world →
THREE QUESTIONS: 1. Are you making enough mistakes? 2. How are you learning from those mistakes? 3. How are you leveraging those mistakes into other ideas? Historically, making mistakes has been a leading cause of creative breakthroughs. So, if you want to motivate YOUR melon and increase your innovative prowess, check out this list of 10 mistakes that changed the world. NOTE: each of these...
The idea does not count only execution matters: 10... →
I have 10 rules to launch a startup these days that I am writing as bullet points for a Financial Times story, I explained them briefly in video at the last Google Zeitgeist Europe too, will detail this post later.
1- do not wait for a revolutionary idea, the idea of your life will never happen, just focus on a simple exciting empty space you see and execute as fast as possible 2- share your...