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Therapy Is Your Religion: When healing language becomes harmful ideology
My most ‘boomer’ opinion is that therapy-speak has had its day. There’s a strange set of words which have
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Real Treasure Lies in Boring Places: The invisible gap between basic and elite
You can spot someone who lacks fundamentals immediately. On a basketball court at park, you may see the novice stumble
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Russian Saunas Are Inverse Alcohol: Why what feels bad now usually pays off later
Pavel Durov, the billionaire founder of social app Telegram, swears by a morning routine of 300 push-ups and 300 squats.
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Making a Life Remarkable: Why the extraordinary is built from a million ordinary choices
What makes a life remarkable? It’s a question someone asked me at my first book launch event and has
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How to Stop the Slop: The algorithm is optimising for worse
The slop machine is cranking, churning, grinding—to bring you things to consume; things you'll swear you hate,
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Choose Passion: Why the things worth loving are the things worth suffering for
The word "passion" actually comes from the Latin pati, meaning 'to suffer'. It's ironic,
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Persistence pays off: How Travis Kalanick turned repeated failure into billion-dollar success
Most people know Travis Kalanick as the co-founding CEO of Uber. But in 2001, 9 years before the first UberCab
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Golf mindset vs Pinball mindset: Why bouncing around beats aiming for a hole-in-one
Too many people have a golf mindset - their aim is to get from their starting point to an end
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The Future Is Cheap: The biggest opportunities are always a joke at first
Buying the future is usually cheaper than you think. Alexander Graham Bell sell the telephone to Western Union as soon
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The Marty McFly Effect: Why successful people give useless advice
I’ve noticed that when you ask successful people what advice they might give to a young person trying to
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Preparing for a Knife Fight: Why you should prepare before you have to
Longevity expert Peter Attia talks about the Centenarian Decathlon - the idea that if we want to maintain our physical
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Curate all the things: How to Take Control of What You Consume
A bazillion years ago, in the great library in Alexandria, you could find some cool books. You didn’t have
