First Thing in the Morning
Lemon water, yoga, journaling, exercise, affirmations, ice bath, etc. These are some of the things that gurus recommend doing to start your day for maximum performance. But this type of routine can take so long that no actual productivity occurs before lunchtime. Rian Doris, co-founder & CEO of…
Selecting a Morning Routine
“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter whether you…
What Is a Novelty Drain?
I recently discovered the expression, “novelty drain”, coined by Chase Hughes. Chase is founder and CEO of Applied Behavior Research, leading behavior expert, and author. In Hughes’ usage, a novelty drain refers to the idea that frequent, unmanaged novelty (new experiences, changes, stimuli, etc.) can deplete your attention…
Lose Your First 50 Games As Quickly As Possible
The ancient Chinese game of Weiqi is probably better known in the Western world by its Japanese name, Go (Baduk in Korean). Go is a two-player strategy game where players, playing as black or white, take turns placing stones on a grid to claim territory and surround their…
Fail Fast, Fail Often, Fail forward
The specific combination of “Fail early, fail often, but always fail forward” is widely attributed to author and leadership expert John C. Maxwell. He popularized the concept through his 2000 book, Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes into Stepping Stones for Success. But this mantra has been taken up by…
Embrace Failure
One thing that has held me back immensely in life is the fact that I generally avoided challenges that I didn’t believe I would succeed at on my first try. I made the mistake of associating failure with being a loser. But nothing could be further from the…
