In this post, Dr Money Mustache also talks about how to avoid wasting time. And it’s not just news, it’s ‘all forms of irrelevant information’. The philosopher Seneca said in On the Shortness of Life, ‘There is no time for anything inessential,’ but does this mean you can’t even watch 6 episodes of Friends back-to-back, or watch highlights of pretty boring…
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I’ve done this exercise with my students 3 different times now… ‘Get your books out and in groups, write down the biggest news events of the past 20 years. You have 10 minutes… Go.’ After the ten minutes, I ask them, ‘Okay, how many of those are good news?’ They all smile or laugh, which means pretty much zero. The…
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Surrounding yourself with the right people makes you better. I’ve had a fair few positive role models since I left high school. And not just positive role models, but pretty inspirational people. My brother, people I met traveling, people I stayed with or lived with and a few randoms outside of those confines. Jim Rohn said you’re the average of the 5…
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I always thought that compromise in a relationship means both people not getting what they want. I’ve also heard people say they don’t think that’s right though – that it’s about both people getting what they want. But that doesn’t really ring true for me either. This does though. A friend of mine, who has got his shit together, and whose opinion…
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I don’t know about you, but when I make a decision that I later think was wrong, I sometimes get pissed off and think, ‘God damn I can be a dumbass sometimes.’ But most of the time, when you make a decision that later you wish had been different, it wasn’t actually a ‘wrong’ decision. It was a decision that was…
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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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Today I finished David Deutsch’s incredible book, The Beginning of Infinity, and went straight on to the next one I’ve got that I’ve been hanging to get stuck into, Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott. I’ve heard different people say it’s the book about how to be a good writer. The problem is I shouldn’t have it. It’s a library rental, and it’s overdue. Damn.…
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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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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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“The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the…