Games are like a super power. Games got me into college, got me into graduate school, got me my first job, raised me money for businesses. Taught me strategy, taught me how…
Games are like a super power. Games got me into college, got me into graduate school, got me my first job, raised me money for businesses. Taught me strategy, taught me how to handle adversity, taught me how to be deceptive. I was going to do a book: How to Win at Every Game. I […]
“I was six years old when I watched my dad executed on national TV”, Tim told me. “He was on death row.” I had given a talk the day before. During the…
“I was six years old when I watched my dad executed on national TV”, Tim told me. “He was on death row.” I had given a talk the day before. During the talk I had described in detail the various ways one could kill themselves. I said, “If you point a gun at your head […]
EXTREME LISTENING I was at a dinner and someone told me, “if you are even thinking of a response while someone is talking, then you aren’t really listening.” This guy seemed smarter…
EXTREME LISTENING I was at a dinner and someone told me, “if you are even thinking of a response while someone is talking, then you aren’t really listening.” This guy seemed smarter than me. And he seemed like a nice person. But this advice is not true. I thought about it a lot afterwards. For […]
The other day I woke up angry. I was remembering all of the people who I felt I did many good things for and now they don’t like me. I started to…
The other day I woke up angry. I was remembering all of the people who I felt I did many good things for and now they don’t like me. I started to list all of the reasons they hate me. I started to think about arguments I would tell them to SHOW them how wrong […]
I knew everyone’s secret crush and I wrote them down. I had a spiral bound notebook with that metal spiral that would poke out and scratch me whenever I carried it. It…
I knew everyone’s secret crush and I wrote them down. I had a spiral bound notebook with that metal spiral that would poke out and scratch me whenever I carried it. It hurt. But that is the path a hard-core 11 year old journalist / spy must take. Every day I’d look around and if […]
Design by: Pamela Sisson The only way to survive, to get off the floor, to build, to have ideas, to create businesses, to have flourishing relationships is with diversification. And with the greatest…
Design by: Pamela Sisson The only way to survive, to get off the floor, to build, to have ideas, to create businesses, to have flourishing relationships is with diversification. And with the greatest invention since the wheel, the internet, it’s easier to do it now than ever before. 1. DIVERSIFY IDEAS People ask me, “when I’m […]
Got depressed because my dad went broke, lost our home, and went insane. He’d cry all the time, ask me ‘what’s wrong with me?’ and listen to music until he died. Got…
Got depressed because my dad went broke, lost our home, and went insane. He’d cry all the time, ask me ‘what’s wrong with me?’ and listen to music until he died. Got depressed because the first ten girls I asked out didn’t like me and said no. Two actually ran away before I finished my […]
