New Year’s Resolutions are for Losers
New year’s resolutions are for losers… #sorrynotsorry
Human Behavior59 Videos
How to Set Goals Like Donald Trump
“If you can’t say the downsides of a goal, you don’t have a goal.” If you want to achieve anything meaningful, in life or in business, you need to have a goal based in reality and not on fantasy. The goal needs to be articulated, investigated, and broken down into incremental steps that you can […]
You Are in Charge of Your Actions
“The unexamined life is not worth living.” I bring up this quote from Socrates because there’s a perception out there that we are not in control of our emotions and our reactions. And while it’s true that we cannot stop our brains from feeling certain ways … it is possible to take ownership of your […]
How to Take Meaningful Action Instead of Making Bad Decisions
What should I do? Which option represents the “best” decision? How do we decide? The answer lies within your values
The Purpose of Life
People make a pretty big deal of out the whole “meaning of life” thing. To me it’s abundantly obvious. The purpose of life is to grow. The purpose of life is to start out unrefined and move as much as we can towards refinement. How do you grow? That’s easy, too. By taking on and […]
How to Stand on the Shoulders of Giants
It all comes down to values. Whether I’m giving a talk to a high-school, running a multi-day event, or leading my team, you better bet I’m going to bring up the idea of values. Why? Well, I could fill up your entire feed with the reasons why, but the short answer is that if you […]
Seeing Forward in Time & Space
If a goal doesn’t “feel” real to you, the likelihood of you achieving that goal is near zero. That feeling comes from your subconscious. And even if you really, really want to achieve that goal – even if you put all of your conscious effort towards it – your subconscious will trip you up every […]
The Art of Deserving
Do you feel stuck and unable to achieve what you really want? Are you often feeling that “life would be better if…?” Maybe it’s possible that you don’t feel that you deserve the things that you say you want. That feeling of unworthiness, more than anything else, is keeping you trapped. That unworthiness is creating […]
How Your Labels Hold You Back
Morally labeling things is a one-way ticket to emotional fragility. Because moral labels are absolute and one-sided, whenever someone does something that isn’t congruent with the label, we’ll react accordingly. Here’s an example: let’s say you label “spilling coffee” as a bad thing. Because it has that label, whenever it happens, you’re going to be […]
Short Term Pain Mitigation
Keep your hands off that marshmallow. Here’s a quick explanation if you don’t know what I’m talking about: in the 60s there was an experiment done at Stanford involving delayed gratification. A group of children were each given marshmallows and told that, if they resisted the temptation to eat them immediately, they’d get another. Later […]
