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Make Fewer Decisions to Produce More
I want to produce at a superhuman level. Looking back over a year, I’d like to wonder just how I got so much done in such a short period of time. At my best I can execute to that standard, but I’m not always at my best. It’s possible to have this level of productivity…
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Being Willing to be Neutral
A couple months ago I watched the Wolf of Wall Street with some friends. As the credits began to roll, I started to consolidate my opinion on the move. Did I love it? Did I hate it? I could come up with decent rationale for either. Depending on the second my friends asked my opinion,…
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Principles I Live By
Most of what we do is subconscious, driven by our habits. The rest is conscious, primarily driven by our principles. In addition to dictating our conscious actions, principles also guide which habits we decide to create. If we want to improve ourselves and become more effective, our habits and principles are the places we can…
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Where I’ll Be In 2024
A couple days ago, during a rest period of a workout, Leo asked me if I was different now than I was ten years ago. My gut reaction was to say that, no, I was pretty much exactly the same, but even a quick scan of changes in that time made me realize that I…
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Dealing With the Pain of Breaking Up
One of the things that’s missing from my writing is emotion, and I know it. I’m always trying to correct that by looking for ways to add emotion to my writing, but I rarely find them. The truth is that ninety nine percent of the time the only emotions I feel are some variation on…
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Carry the Weight
[Note: If you’re in San Francisco or Austin, read the bolded part at the very bottom!] For most of my life, at least until my late twenties, I was a slacker. I did almost nothing to help around the house, choosing to procrastinate on things assigned to me until someone else just did it themselves…
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Doing Things That Aren’t Supposed to Be Done
The first example I can remember was when my friends and I, nineteen at the time, bought a forty foot long school bus. The idea was so absurd and without precedent, that it seemed impossible. It was like being at a zoo, where you know that you’re standing two feet away from a fully grown…
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Believing Things That May Not Be True
In poker, you make money whenever your opponent plays differently than he would if he knew what cards you have. When you do the same, you lose money. In other words, whenever you act in a way that you wouldn’t if you knew the truth, you’re making a mistake. The same could be said for…
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Why I Take Ballet Classes, And Why I Like Them
About eight months ago, I had the idea that maybe I should be doing something to work on flexibility and posture, like yoga. I’ve taken yoga in the past and liked it, but never really loved it enough to stick with it. Maybe I’ll try ballet, I thought. A lot of members of my family…
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The Long Shots
I have a favorite type of hand in poker. I like it because it makes up a huge chunk of my winnings at poker, is good solid play, and looks idiotic to bad poker players. It’s the kind of hand that pulls hundreds of dollars in your direction, and sometimes a couple angrily-thrown cards from…
