When we want to learn something, we might be inclined to find someone with more experience than us and ask that they teach us what they know. Learning from the experiences of others is generally much faster than trying to experience everything first-hand, so it’s typically a good approach. Except there’s one problem. In Victor …
We all have our own default answers when things come our way, whether we know it or not. Some people automatically say no to requests. They assume they can’t handle anything more, so they take the easy way out. Only through dedicated persuasion efforts do they finally buy in and agree to whatever is being …
People spend too much time doing and not enough time thinking about what they should be doing. Naval Ravikant -Brandon
Living in a place like Michigan, the way you shovel the first snowfall of the season is critical. Barring unseasonable warmth, this first shoveling determines your best-case-scenario. Once you define the boundary line where the snow bank meets the pavement, there’s no going back. The boundary line freezes up over time, and makes a firm …
The crazy, and even bad, events in our lives are what make us interesting. They’re what make the best stories when we reflect with friends, what give us the experience to view life from different perspectives, and what make life enjoyable. We think that we want things to go smoothly, but when I think back …
Sometimes we get caught trying to segment our lives. Vacation -> funWork -> not funSitting on a beach -> funDriving to the beach -> not fun But it’s not that easy. The experience surrounding a vacation starts well before we get to the destination. It includes the flight, the experience at airport, the drive to …
Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do…Sanity means tying it to your own actions. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations -Brandon
Sometimes it’s good to be stretched beyond our limits. When life throws more at us than we’re prepared to handle, we quickly realize which lower-priority tasks we can live without. The relaxing downtime and social media scrolling that “we had to have” suddenly falls by the wayside. The time-sucking requests that come from inconsiderate colleagues …
When I’m trying to turn onto a road, I prefer not to shoot small gaps. The reward is fairly small, and the risk relatively much larger, so I’d rather wait for a clearly safe opening. But as I continue to wait, frustration builds. Suddenly an opening that I wouldn’t have even considered thirty seconds ago …
Not because I’m a millennial that’s addicted to texting, or because I’m afraid of talking on the phone. But because I genuinely believe that text is the best form of communication for most situations. We respond to emails and texts on our own time. An incoming message comes through, we see it (assuming we’re in …