Blogs About High Performance
Do you ever feel lost, aimless, or a little confused, like you’re sailing through life without a rudder to guide you? If so, it’s likely that you’re not aligned with your values. Your values are what give you meaning, purpose, and direction in life, but if you don’t...
Nobel-prize winning physicist and Caltech professor, Richard Feynman, relished solving problems on his own, wanting to truly understand them, before attempting to solve them. Feynman followed a clear set of thinking tools to drive his thought processes, breaking...
Source: One of my recent talks, which only occurred as a result of that email I wanted to learn from the best, and I wanted to learn quickly. Through my talks in schools and universities, I also wanted to equip future generations with the tools and tactics they needed...
“One wrong person in your circle can destroy your whole future. It’s that important.” — Terry Crews Terry Crews is an actor, comedian, activist, artist, and former American football player. As a self-confessed “book nut” — mostly in the area of self-help — he’s also...
As a brain scientist studying addiction and mindfulness, I’ve been exploring habit formation for the past 6 years. What I’ve found is that old habits are hard to break, and new habits are hard to implement. This simple metaphor explains how this works in your brain. A...
Ever since I was a child, I was consumed by anxiety and tormented by my mind. As I got older, my anxiety got worse, and so did my urge to escape it. I began using drugs when I was 14 years old, and by the time I was 20, I was a heroin addict. I spent the next 15 years...
When reading the work of Thomas Jefferson, I came across a line that slapped me square in the face — “Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” Having lost 15 years of my life to addiction, mostly through inaction, it felt...
Someone once told me the definition of hell: “On your last day on earth, the person you could have become will meet the person you became.” When I first heard this line, it sent shivers down my spine. Why? Because by the time I was 35, I had lost my entire adult life...
When I asked myself the same question, it changed mine too. Tim Ferriss is a highly successful author, podcaster, entrepreneur and investor. He has written five #1 New York Times bestselling books, and the success of his podcast, which recently exceeded to over...
A friend of James Clear’s once suggested that he occasionally asked himself the following question: “What am I really trying to achieve here?” Whenever he remembers to do it, he finds the question generates useful answers. In a recent Twitter post, he asked others...