Resources
You Are Not Your Thoughts
A guide to finding your true self beneath your chaotic mind. Eckhart Tolle is a spiritual teacher and author of The Power of Now, widely regarded as one of the most influential spiritual books of our time. At the age of 29, he experienced a profound inner...
4 Ways To Help You Deal With Difficult People
We are naturally drawn towards negativity. That’s why you’re standing here today. We evolved a bias towards negativity in order to survive. The cautious lived, the fearless died — it’s that simple. Consider your ancestors strolling through the jungle thousands of...
How to Find Your True North
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...
A Simple Tool to Beat Smartphone Addiction
Greg McKeown is a leadership expert, champion the lifestyle of essentialism, and New York Times Bestselling Author. I had the privilege of speaking to Greg last year. We discussed many topics including living in the moment, self-observation, and the hidden dangers of...
Your Problems Are All In Your Head
Do you ever dwell on past events, wishing you had done things differently? Do you ever wish the weeks away, living only for weekends? Do you ever argue with your boss, before you’ve even gotten out of the shower? This is how many people spend their days, lost in...
Why You Cannot Change the People You Love
We all have loved ones in our lives that cause us distress. It might be an alcoholic parent, a partner with depression, a tearaway sibling, or someone you care for who’s a pain in the ass. You want them to change, and maybe they want to change — people who are...
Are You Mindful or Mindless? A Neuroscientist’s Perspective
I spent most of my life mindlessly obsessing about the past and the future. I was consumed by anxiety and tormented by my mind, but completely unaware of the source of my suffering. To escape my pain, I used drugs, resulting in 15 years of chronic heroin addiction....
The Cold Email I Wrote to Connect With the Most Successful People in My Country
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...
Why We Can Never Say What We Actually Mean
If we want to speak to reality, sometimes we have to abandon our language. Ludwig Wittgenstein was a genius and one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century. Born into one of Europe’s richest families, he initially sought out the tutelage of the...
How To Gain A Mental Edge: 7 Thinking Tools Used By The World’s Leading Performers
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...