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A Better Type of New Year’s Resolution

This year, instead of changing you, focus on changing your setup – your physical environment, the various spaces in your life. And instead of committing to maintaining some new behavioral regimen, commit to maintaining your improved setup. This is the most important principle of smart willpower strategy. Get your physical space right, and the behaviors you want to do in that space become massively easier. James Clear recently explained why… Read More »A Better Type of New Year’s Resolution

The Relationship Marble Jar

Brené Brown has a helpful metaphor for understanding relationships: the marble jar.1 Whenever you build a relationship with someone (a romantic partner, a friend, a colleague) imagine that you and the other person are working together to fill up a jar of marbles. With every interaction, you each have a choice: You can add to the marble jar, take from the marble jar, or break the marble jar. Adding Marbles… Read More »The Relationship Marble Jar

The To-Do List Checkbox System

To-Do List Trouble I used to put things on my weekly to-do list like “write next week’s blog post” or “practice calculus” or “redo homepage for website.” To-do lists are great, but for tasks like these, I was having a problem: They weren’t things I was going to do in a single sitting. Writing next week’s blog post takes multiple sessions of writing and editing. Practicing calculus is something I… Read More »The To-Do List Checkbox System

Where Do New Ideas Come From?

It could easily be argued that the hallmark of our species is creativity. Other animals are certainly creative, but no other species has taken innovation and art to such dramatic heights. Here are some telling examples: In Birmingham, England, in 1867, factories were producing over 500 different types of hammers, each with a unique, specialized function.1 In just the United States, over the past 200 years, over ten million patents… Read More »Where Do New Ideas Come From?

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