Category: Self-Improvement

Sunrise over Maligne Lake.

Positivity and Optimism: Underrated Super Powers

Some people walk into a room and the energy changes. Conversations get easier, ideas flow, strangers introduce themselves. It is…

Continue Positivity and Optimism: Underrated Super Powers
Marcus Aurelius marble bust

The Stoic Investor

People misread Stoicism as a philosophy of resignation, as if its ideal investor were a monk serenely indifferent to returns….

Continue The Stoic Investor
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, attributed to Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Don’t Blow Up

Most money advice is about how to win: which stocks to buy, which career moves pay, which habits compound. Winning…

Continue Don’t Blow Up
The West Room of the Morgan Library, New York

Why You Should Read Biographies

Most books that promise to make you wiser hand you a list of rules. Rules are easy to nod at…

Continue Why You Should Read Biographies

The Life Lessons and Benefits of Golf

It’s been said before that “golf is a good walk spoiled.” While this quote is likely meant as a joke…

Continue The Life Lessons and Benefits of Golf

The Power of Simplicity

The timeless concept of simplicity, at its core, is striving to remove unnecessary complexity. Simplicity is desirable in nearly all…

Continue The Power of Simplicity

Key Lessons from Dale Carnegie’s “How to Win Friends & Influence People”

Dale Carnegie wrote “How to Win Friends & Influence People” in 1936 and the book’s lessons and insights are still…

Continue Key Lessons from Dale Carnegie’s “How to Win Friends & Influence People”

Envy – The Most Unproductive Sin

“Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy. The idea of caring that someone…

Continue Envy – The Most Unproductive Sin

Confidence is Key – Scott Adams

“When humans hold a higher opinion of our abilities than the facts warrant, that mindset can lead to better results…

Continue Confidence is Key – Scott Adams

The Thin Line Between Good and Great

I recently heard a surprising statistic that I felt the need to verify, so I searched to see if it…

Continue The Thin Line Between Good and Great