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The most powerful force in the Universe, and where to find it
There is a quote that says compound interest is "the most powerful force in the Universe". But compound interest doesn't just work with money, it also works with a few other unexpected things.
Why nobody cares (and what makes that amazing)
People care a lot less about your house, car, job, and clothes than you think. And knowing that fact will change your game.
Challenge: Break one rule today
It's hard to name a wildly productive or successful person who plays by the rules. As one rule breaker put it recently, "If you do follow things in a formulaic manner, you will at best wind up being the same as everybody else".
Introducing a brand new stats page, now with a daily work log and wakeup times
I just updated the stats page with completely redesigned graphs. And I'm now logging the work I do each day, as well as posting my wakeup times!
5 places I’ve failed with A Year of Productivity recently
Over the last couple of weeks I have failed at a number of things I set out to do with this project. This post lists what those are, and exactly why I failed.
The 2 things every productive (and successful) person does, every day
In my opinion, productive people (and successful people) do these two things every day that other people don't.
Tomorrow I graduate University. Yeahhhhhh!!!! (No posts tomorrow.)
Tomorrow I have my University convocation ceremony and reception. The final day of a long, long five-year journey that has been a ton of fun. I'm taking tomorrow off, so there won't be any posts.
My interview with the world’s most productive musician, Ernie Halter
Ernie Halter has a massive following (including 500,000 fans on twitter), but he still has time to write over 100 songs every year and personally respond to every email he gets. I recently talked with him about how he stays so productive.
Two questions to ask yourself about how hard you work
Hard work is pretty underrated. Here are two questions to ask yourself about how hard you and the people around you are working that I pulled from the book Mindset.
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