We all have goals that require some discipline, but once one thing goes wrong it can be easy to let everything else fall apart. You're on a diet and you have a bad day. You miss a gym session and break a solid streak. You have a lapse...
At the end of the game show Golden Ball, the two final contestants have to decide whether to steal or split the winnings. The problem is, they have no idea what the other person will pick. It’s the classic prisoners dilemma. 💡If you pick split and the other person...
I had a friend who loved to say “Don’t sweat the small stuff.” The problem is, it’s often the small stuff that makes you sweat. 💡It's the tiny details you overlook that lead to the biggest catastrophes. Boeing spent $4 billion on a machine they thought...
People like to say, “It’s not a sprint; it’s a marathon.” The problem is that some people take six hours to run a marathon, while the best do it in two. If you can’t finish the marathon in under three hours they won’t even let you...
Buying the future is usually cheaper than you think. Alexander Graham Bell tried to sell the telephone to Western Union as soon as he got it working. They said no . Today, there’s a phone in almost every pocket in the developed world. And in the poorest parts of the...
Longevity expert Peter Attia talks about the Centenarian Decathlon - the idea that if we want to maintain our physical abilities into old age, we should consider the body's natural rate of atrophy and plan in advance to counteract it. The analog I developed for myself years ago...
