For a lot of people, they never step back and really ask themselves what kind of career they want. Instead, they act like ambitious rats in a Skinner box, pushing the right levers to get short-term career rewards, without asking whether they want to be in that box in the first place. I recently read this interesting story about someone who became a physics major “accidentally”, prodded along by the
January 10, 2023
How to Change Your Life in 5 Seconds
In 2008, author, entrepreneur, and award-winning television commentator Mel Robbins was out of work and out of money and running out of options. Her husband, Chris, had invested in a restaurant that was struggling and the family was facing bankruptcy. Simple, everyday decisions like getting out of bed in the morning suddenly became a real effort. “You talk about not feeling motivated?” Robbins asks in this interview. “I didn’t have
January 6, 2023
Stoicism 101: A Practical Guide for Entrepreneurs
“There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.” -Seneca Few of us would consider ourselves philosophers. Most of us can recall at least one turtleneck-wearing intellectual in college who dedicated countless hours of study to the most obscure philosophical points of Marx or post-structural lesbian feminism. For what? Too often, to posture as a superior intellect at meal time or