Can Friends Be Too Supportive?

Have you ever had someone let you off the hook for something? Maybe you dropped a glass and it shattered all over the floor… at a friend’s house! Embarrassing, right? If they are nice and forgiving, they probably said, “oh no no! It’s fine. I broke 2 glasses yesterday. It happens all the time. Don’t worry about it.”Read More

Break Your Own Rules, Live Better

When you hesitate to act, even for a second, you create a barrier to action. The barrier is known as a precedent. Every action we take (or don’t take) either establishes a precedent or strengthens an old one. The strongest precedents become rules, and these self-created precedents and rules typically dominate our choices.Read More

The Experts Are Wrong – You Don’t Need Passion To Succeed

Steve Jobs once spent thirty minutes debating the shade of grey for the Apple Store’s bathroom signs. He obsessed over other “irrelevant details” like the aesthetics of inside computers. He screamed at people if they were slightly off the mark.

Steve Jobs was passionate.Read More