I don’t know whether to feel good or bad about this… I’ve been thinking about exactly the same thing for more than the last ten years. And I’m still no closer to understanding things. Back in 2005, I was the editor of my university’s student magazine. And this is the theme that I came up with for one on the six…
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I spent the end of 2015 Helpxing on a couple farms in Ontario, Canada. Both places weren’t too far outside Ottawa, and the first was on a property owned by a guy called Damita. Damita had previously only worked in IT and had 0 experience in carpentry. But he read book after book, watched videos on Youtube, and then he just,…
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I live in a place where people are pretty active. Whenever the sun’s out, there’s people out running around, walking their dogs, talking and chatting, fishing, everything. But when it rains, everything’s different. On the streets and on the beach, it’s a ghost town. I can’t speak for everyone, but as soon as the weather is ‘bad’, and it rains, people…
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Watch this from 6:20. This is someone just completely lost in what they’re doing. Just completely in the fucking zone. It is absolute magic. It’s also what Steven Kotler calls in his book, The Rise of Superman, being in ‘flow’. Being in flow is just being completely present and connected to what you’re doing right now. It’s total connection to what you’re…
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Are Israeli people pushy? Kind of (at 2:07). But there’s a reason. Israelis don’t wait for things to happen. They make them happen. That’s why there’s so many great ideas and such great innovation that’s come out of there, the Startup Nation (Israel has the most tech startups per capita of any country in the world.) So, sometimes what comes…
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Elon Musk is nuts. Nuts in the way that he does seemingly impossible things, and he expects nothing less from others. But damn, does he get things done. Huge, massive, interplanetary type things. And one of the things that makes Elon Musk so successful is that he actively seeks out negative feedback. He pays close attention to it, and especially from…
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This was the best ever scene in That 70s show. Over the past few years, my fiancee and I have watched that scene so many times, and every time we laughed that I was Kelso and she was Jackie. It’s actually the other way around (well, kind of). I’m only 12 days away from getting married. And I’m not really…
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On a sunny Saturday afternoon back in spring 2004, I went to an exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria (Pretty sure it was the Edvard Munch one), and looking around the gift shop magazine rack afterwards, just as they were about to close, I noticed something unlike any of the other books or publications there. It was called Dumbo…
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This is a good movie. It’s got Ben Stiller and Kristen Wiig and it’s about a guy who’s never done more in his life than travel to Arizona, and also to Nashville (just the airport, in transit to Arizona). It’s an inspirational movie. Ben Stiller knows what sells. And you can’t blame him. I think there’s only 2 reasons he…
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Yesterday, my good friend Matt went back to Melbourne. On the last day he was here we did this thing at the local surf beach, where you face the shore, look nowhere but at the other person back on the shore and walk directly backwards into the crashing waves, without looking behind you. It was a huge day for surf…