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Success The next time you feel screwed that you haven’t gotten your big break, or watch as some potential life-changing opportunity to level up escapes your grasp, ask yourself if that’s really the case. Is it really bad luck? Or has Fortune done you a kindness? – The Most Successful People Are The Ones You’ve Never Heard Of (And Why They Want It That Way), by Ryan Holiday Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship’s fundamental aspect is the ability and desire to take ownership of existing resources and innovate with them to create more wealth, to move them from an area of lower productivity and yield to a higher one. Read more...

Why are habits important, and why should you try to acquire habits? It’s easy to get seduced by articles offering shortcuts for success. “The 5 things successful (whatever success means) millionaires do every day”, if you are into money. Or how to [put your favorite aspiration here] without [put the thing you find more difficult here, usually involving long-term effort]… If we continue to see these kind of articles popping up on our Facebook timelines as “sponsored articles” is for one reason: they work. Read more...

Excellent article by Ryan Holiday about succesful people and their mentors, manipulation, and power. How to Be a Professional Son (or Daughter). Seth Godin on fear of failure and fear of actual risk: It’s essential that we differentiate between things that remind us of fear and those that are actually risky. In our adult world, the most valuable activities are actually inconvenient, fraught with the fear of failure and apparently un-do-able. Read more...

We like to believe that things will go as planned. We should know better. One of the keys to accomplishing a goal is to focus everyday not on the goal itself, but on the routines and systems needed to reach the goal. Define a routine, and stick to it. Identify a cue and associate it with the routine. With time, an habit is established. The routine no longer implies effort, you just do it without much thinking every time the cue is present. Read more...

Some people associate learning with formal education. They unconsciously regard other ways of learning as less serious or not worth. Of course, attending a good college or university can be an exceptional learning experience. Formal education has its place and value1. But it’s not enough. To quote Kevin Kelly, “all of us—every one of us—will be endless newbies in the future simply trying to keep up.”2 We need to be continuously learning. Read more...