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Self-Help Authors and Perfect Lives

“Do authors of self-help books have a perfect personality and life?” (via Quora) Imagine an author who introduces himself this way: “I was born on a cool, breezy day in June, on the day I was supposed to be born and my mama told me delivery was almost painless because I came into the world [...]

Perspective on Success Interview with Decoded Pathways

Chuks Onwuneme of Decoded Pathways interviewed me after reading one of my answers on Quora about success and how this changes people’s attitudes and behaviors.

Successful People: Arrogant or Something Else?

Most successful people started out like most ordinary people. Most of them do not act arrogantly, and many are probably “nice by default”. You go about your day, making your bed (or not), getting along with people (or not), and generally go with the flow of society (or your particular social bubble). One day, or [...]

How Arrogance Nullifies Achievements and Talents

Why does being bigheaded nullify all your achievements and/or talents? [this was a question on Quora] Being big-headed nullifies all your achievements and talents because you are openly showing how small-minded you actually are when it comes to qualities that are independent from talent and achievement that human beings in general care about quite a [...]

Life, Uninterrupted

If you asked me what you can do to really live before you die, I’m not going to tell you to start taking skydiving lessons or go bungee jumping (although if you want, you can do these things). Instead, I’ll say: Love someone so deeply that you genuinely believe that you will die (or at [...]