What’s the best way to grow? Typically by doing whatever you aren’t doing now. If you want to improve your health, change it up. If your exercise routine solely consists of cardio, lift some weights. If you’ve been lifting weights for years, spend some time doing yoga or trying out different movements. It even applies …
Remember when all of the credit card machines made the switch from “swipe” to “insert” to accommodate the new chips built into the cards? It was a pain. It felt like an unnecessary inconvenience that would seemingly take forever until the confusion and uncertainty stopped. But eventually, it went away. Now we don’t even think …
What’s the purpose of the conversation you’re having? Is it to pass the time? Build a relationship? Gain information? Or something else? It seems silly since we rarely stop to reflect why we’re having a given conversation, but the impact is significant. Take a common conversational tactic for example – searching for similarity. One of …
There are countless valuable lessons that can be learned from sports, but one of the most powerful ones is also the simplest – you can get better. Intelligently spending time in the weight room will get you strong. Running will improve your endurance. Spending dedicated effort on specific sport-specific skills will make you a better …
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw -Brandon
It’s commonly understood that you don’t “beat the boss.” Whether you’re playing golf, ping pong, or poker; the common knowledge is that you let your superiors win. I don’t buy it. I have no interest working for someone who expects me to let them win. Competition is competition, whatever it is. The same personality and …
If we’re being honest, I think that any self-aware person carries a lingering sense of doubt with them. Doubt whether they’re doing the best the can. Or whether they should be focusing their efforts elsewhere. It can be annoying, but I think this doubt is healthy. As long as we aren’t debilitated, or de-railed, by …
When was the last time you moved a couch by resting it neatly on your upper back and lifting with your legs? Obviously never. The movements and lifts we come across in everyday life are rarely neat. We don’t get to “bench press” a piece of drywall to the ceiling. We lift it however we …
What makes a pass perfect? When we’re young, we’re taught to always hit the receiver directly in the chest. Yet passes in the NFL rarely actually end up at the receiver’s chest. Is that because the quarterback isn’t accurate enough to throw the ball in the right place? Not exactly. There’s no such thing as …
…it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that! Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland -Brandon