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I read a lot, at least a book a week, and get asked for recommendations. Rather than continuing to respond privately to emails, I have semi-regularly posted my recommendations here. Below are my favorite reads from 2015, not in any Continue reading The post Best Books of 2015 first appeared on The Blog of A.J. Kessler .
Keep yourself as busy as possible. Good opportunities are going to come up along side you. It s a lot easier to steer into one when you re already moving than it is to try to catch up to one when you re Continue reading The post Momentum Creates the Ability to Seize Opportunity first appeared on The Blog of A.J. Kessler .
As you go through life, you ll meet the people who have it all figured out. The girl who, in 8th grade, starting taking zoology classes at the local junior college because she knew she wanted to be a Giraffe veterinarian. Continue reading The post Showing Up first appeared on The Blog of A.J. Kessler .
The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people recognize, that in life Continue reading The post Creating v. Finding first appeared on The Blog of A.J. Kessler .
Once you obtain a certain level of success, some people start to act strangely. They wonder aloud why you re not content with what you ve already achieved. Whether it stems from a desire to see you not get further ahead or Continue reading The post Contentment first appeared on The Blog of A.J. Kessler .
As a 10 year old, I was barely taller than a washing machine and I weighed less than half as much. But I was fast, so I played on a competitive soccer team. Or, more accurately, I played when the Continue reading The post First Principles: Internalization first appeared on The Blog of A.J. Kessler .
In school, we read a lot of fiction. We are instructed to look for similes and metaphors, to search for the hidden meaning in the text, to guess at what the author was really implying or thinking about. Because of Continue reading The post Reading Recommendations – 2014Q1 first appeared on The Blog of A.J. Kessler .
The worst thing my parents ever told me was that I was smart. When they bought me a toy piano when I was four, my dad tried to teach me to peck out the notes of Mary Had A Little Continue reading The post First Principles: Mindset first appeared on The Blog of A.J. Kessler .
I read a lot and am often asked for recommendations. Rather than continuing to respond privately to emails, I decided to post my recommendations from 2013 here. I ll continue to post recommendations, either in separate posts or under some consolidated Continue reading The post Best Books I Read In 2013 first appeared on The Blog of A.J. Kessler .
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” Ernest Hemingway The post Superiority first appeared on The Blog of A.J. Kessler .
Whenever you start a project, you should have a plan for finishing it. One outcome is to declare victory, to find that moment when you have satisfied your objectives and reached a goal. The other outcome, which feels like a Continue reading The post Declare Victory or Failure first appeared on The Blog of A.J. Kessler .
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. Stephen Hawking The post The Greatest Enemy of Knowledge first appeared on The Blog of A.J. Kessler .
A Jewish man was sitting in a Starbucks reading an Arab newspaper. A friend of his, who happened to be in the same store, noticed this strange phenomenon. Very upset, he approached him and said: Moshe, have you lost your Continue reading The post Perspective, Pt 2 first appeared on The Blog of A.J. Kessler .
Paul McHenry Roberts (1917-1967) taught college English for over twenty years, first at San Jose State College and later at Cornell University. He wrote numerous books on linguistics, including Understanding Grammar (1954), Patterns of English (1956), and Understanding English (1958). Continue reading The post How to Say Nothing in 500 Words first appeared on The Blog of A.J. Kessler .
Chris Guillebeau was interested in building a lifestyle business (i.e. something that requires little startup capital and lots of flexibility). Instead of picking a business at random, Chris did what we should all do. In The $100 Startup, Chris started Continue reading The post Systematic Learning first appeared on The Blog of A.J. Kessler .