Everything you spend time on, you pay for with your life — so choose wisely. — “It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.” — Seneca Because we don’t know exactly when we’re going to die, we tend to think of death as an abstract event happening sometime far away in the future. …

If you’re always comparing yourself, you will never feel successful. — Adeo Ressi is a wild success. In 2009, he started Founder’s Institute, a startup incubator now operating in 165 countries (I recently used one of their tools, and I live in Sweden). Before that, he started a handful of other companies, all of which he successfully sold. …

Change is always painful — Once, maybe twice per year, I come across an idea that completely rewires my brain. This often comes in the form of a book. I’ve heard Ryan Holiday refer to this as a “quake book” — one that causes a metaphysical earthquake that shatters your worldview. Some of my quake…

Why intelligent people don’t always win — Certain people move through life at lightning speed in the direction of the stratosphere. They make more progress in a year than most do in their life. And when they do end up taking a wrong turn, they course-correct and go back to winning without skipping a beat. As a…

I’m about to leave the decade of youth behind forever — Turning 30 is weird, man. In your twenties, you can keep up the illusion that you’re not really a grown-up yet. Some of your friends get fancy jobs and wear a suit, and others f%ck off to Bali. Everyone’s just kinda doing what feels right to them, and it seems…

This 1930s experiment showed exactly why we should all be worried… — Have you ever considered what will actually happen to us humans in the next hundred years or so if we keep eating the processed foods we are eating so much of today? It’s a curious question and likely not the first one to enter your mind whenever you find yourself…

Opportunities are not like busses — Life is funny. We spend much of it searching for the things that will make us happy and fulfilled. Then, when we find one such thing, it’s usually like discovering a part of us that was there all along… I was 28 years old when I first tried surfing. Compared…

And how to fix your breathing for good — In health, we often talk about how to eat, sleep, move, and manage stress. Those are the big pillars, after all. But there is this one thing we do during all of those other activities: we breathe. …

Follow your rhythms to get more done with less stress — In today’s noisy world, the ability to focus is our most valuable asset. We can sense this intuitively. But we don’t often consider what goes on “under the hood” to make focus possible. Instead of creating the right biological circumstances for focus to blossom, most of us reach for the…