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Getting Ahead

Emotions and Our Careers

Everyone tries to maintain a certain emotional state, and learning to control your own emotions will have a profound impact…

Change Your Perception of the World and You Will Change Your Life

   [LSD] is “one of the two or three most important things I’ve done in my life” – Steve Jobs…

Career Lessons from Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa is universally praised for her legacy of good works, having emerged from obscurity to worldwide acclaim. The lessons…

Do Not Allow Others to Hold You Back from Success

Imagine you are a doctor working in a small clinic in the suburbs of Chicago. You are surrounded by uninspired…

Depression, Health, Boredom, Interesting People, and Self-Esteem

In order to reach your full potential, you must avoid depression, obesity and unhealthy foods, boredom, and uninteresting people. Your…

Pay Attention to the Details

The most successful people are often obsessed with and are incredibly knowledgeable about the minutiae of their work. You must…

Givers, Takers, and Equalizers

Nothing is more important to your ultimate success in life and your career as whether or not you are giver,…

My Trip to the Playboy Mansion: The Importance of Challenging Convention

Most people assume that those around them are more interested in what they are doing than is the case, and…

To Innovate You Need to Make Your Own Rules

One of the benefits of being an outsider is not being weighed down by the same social mores, rules, customs,…

Picking Up Suicide Victims in a Shanghai River

Your success depends on the connections you make, and your ability to conform to the groups of which you are…