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".

I came across a great quote from comedian Louis C.K. in the New York Times the other day on patience and hard work - click through to read it!

it is impossible to underestimate how you can make someone's day just by being uncommonly nice to them.

Money talks, and it's one of the strongest motivators out there. But there are a ton of other currencies that can heavily influence other people in addition to money.

I was going to make this one of those blog posts where I ask you to grab a pen and a piece of paper ("I'll wait"), ask you to write down a bunch of garbage and then answer a question, but I decided against it. No one ever actually grabs a pen and paper. Instead of...