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Making friends as an adult is hard (2021)

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Everything Is a Practice

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Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket

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Call yourself titles

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I don't like making the best things

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We overestimate our short-term ability, but underestimate our long-term ability

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The Power of Starting Again

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What I do when I feel like giving up (2015)

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Intentionally making close friends

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Gratitude is a secret weapon for attracting more opportunities

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To Become Wise, Do Less

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Being swamped is normal and not impressive

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Even when you do succeed, sometimes it pays to try again

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The Rut Principle

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A principled way to solve problems

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Useful Self-Improvement Interventions (2013)

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Brandon Sanderson’s advice for doing hard things

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Self-improvement is embracing your messy, imperfect life

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We need your beginner’s mind

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'Speed friending' events

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Follow boring advice

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The goal of standards is to improve our future actions

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Progress Beats Perfect

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The Mental Benefits of Being Terrible at Something

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The world is full of wasted motion

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Talk Less, Listen More

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You’re Never Too Old to Become a Beginner

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Progress Over Perfection

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How I Spend My Attention

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Jackie Chan's Best Advice

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Becoming a magician (2018)

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How I stay motivated working on my long-term project

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Do the Real Thing

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Something small, every day (2013)

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The Top Idea in Your Mind (2010)

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Focus has become more valuable than intelligence (2018)

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When Introverts Act Like Extraverts (and Vice Versa)

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How to Accomplish Big Things, Even When You Feel Small

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Advice on Getting Better from an Accomplished Piano Player (2011)

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To be great, be good repeatably

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How to Kill the Toxic Ego That Will Ruin Your Life

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Getting Ahead by Being Inefficient

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Forget new year’s resolutions and conduct a ‘past year review’ instead

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Skill Stacking: A Practical Strategy to Achieve Career Success

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Improving Ourselves to Death

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Mistakes in time

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Improving Ourselves to Death

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Impatience: The Pitfall of Every Ambitious Person

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Evidence-based advice we've found on how to be successful in a job

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A response to “How to never complete anything”

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A college student’s individual analysis of productivity of four years (2016)

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New Year’s Resolutions for Introverts

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Notes for the New Year

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To Anyone Who Thinks They're Falling Behind in Life

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The Open Plan Office and the Extrovert Ideal

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How to get business ideas – remove steps

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The Builder's High

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10 Months at Harvard, Quantified

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Is it too late to be awesome?

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If you want to get everything done, leave an introvert alone

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John Cleese on How to Make Your Life More Creative

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Chuck Close on Creativity, Work Ethic, and Problem-Solving vs. Problem-Creating

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Want to create a new habit? Get ready to break it.

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Follow the goal creep

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Permission to Suck

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Give it five minutes

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Forget Self-Improvement

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The Shy Connector

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How to Have the Best Year of Your Life (without Setting a Single Goal)

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How to be interesting (2006)

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Questions I ask when reviewing a design

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John Mayer on Finishing Awful Songs

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Action and habit

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How to do deliberate practice

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Now that you have turned 22 can I please give you some advice...

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The Top Idea in Your Mind

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Stop making every conversation about yourself

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To be great, be good, repeatably (2019)

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Lessons from a never-ending personal project

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The fresh start effect

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How to Be More Agentic

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How to do things if you're not that smart and don't have any talent

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Take Ownership of Your Future Self (2020)

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On finishing projects

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The Art of Finishing

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