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How To Quit Your Job the Right Way
When I was at a corporate IT job, I kept wondering: What are all these people doing? Many people were on the phone. Or were already outdated by new software systems. The corporation wouldn’t fire them...
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Don’t Say You Are An Entrepreneur
I stopped sleeping for fifteen years the first day I left my full-time job to go to my own business, which had been operating already for 18 months. I worked all day at my full-time job and then all...
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I Failed At 1,001 Things. Here’s What Happened Next
Every day for five years I wrote 3000 words a day and they all sucked. I wrote four novels and maybe 70 short stories. I sent every novel to about 40 agents and all the publishers. I only got form...
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10 Reasons Your Boss Hates You. And He/She Is Right.
I had a boss who would push his glasses down on his nose when I walked in and look at me above the glasses. Like I was not worth focusing on. Like I was half a human. He hated me. Your boss hates you...
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100 Rules For Being an Entrepreneur
If you Google “entrepreneur” you get a lot of mindless cliches like “Think Big!” For me, being an “entrepreneur” doesn’t mean starting the next “Faceook.” Or even starting any business at all. It means...
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14 Penultimate Rules On Being More Creative
“You know that ‘penultimate’ means ‘second’, right?” she said to me. I forget why, but it was in a horribly embarrassing situation. I remember that. I remember thinking I thought ‘penultimate’ meant...
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The Difference Between Making Millions and Failure Is To Pivot
I had to stop trying to get ahead. There are 8 million people in New York City. And 7 billion in the world. That’s 875 New York Cities. You can’t get ahead. Information is compounding. Technology is...
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7 Techniques To Influence Anyone Of Anything
If I can tell my children to read one post of mine, it would be this one. Influence is how they will navigate a world of uncertainty. Robert Cialdini is the most influential person in the world. And by...
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Become So Good You Cannot Be Ignored
You’re either horrible or miserable. Woody Allen has this joke in “Annie Hall.” He says, “Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That’s the two categories. “The horrible are terminal...
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The Secrets of ‘Billions’
Wall Street is crooked. This is not really a surprise to anyone. I lived on the street. And I worked on the street. Wall Street starts at Broadway and continues down to Water Street. Along the way, it...
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The One Thing I Wish I Knew In My 20s
I was 25 and I went shopping for an engagement ring for my girlfriend. We had been together for three years and my dad kept asking when I would marry her. My friends kept asking. Her friends kept...
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The 20 Habits of Eventual Millionaires
I read book after book but the advice seemed awful. And even the advice that was clearly good (“eat better”) there was almost zero chance I would follow. I don’t know how to take good advice. I don’t...
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This Is What I Do In A Negotiation
“Terrorists have moms,” he said. Jeffrey Schilling was kidnapped in the Philippines and held hostage for 7 and a half months. The terrorists said they were torturing him. But Chris Voss didn’t fall for...
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Doug Casey – 5 Lessons From The Most Interesting Human In The Matrix
“I know you’ve made tens of millions of dollars in various areas of life,” I said. “Tell me how you did it.” “Hmm.” Doug Casey scanned his memory for money. And landed in 1969. “I put all my...
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How Do You Find The Right Path?
I got lost the one time I went hiking. Then it started raining. It was on my birthday. 19 years ago. I fell and twisted my ankle. About an hour later I found a road. I was soaking wet. I went to a...
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It’s Easy To Throw Away A Rock Star Opportunity
My best friend is missing. Or, at least, I haven’t been able to find him for the past 15 years. Search engines. Facebook, LinkedIn. I searched obituaries. The Internet is useless. I found his brother...
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How To Find Your Calling
He died. He was giving a speech, sat down, and the next thing… he was dead. They called an ambulance. They got paramedics. They did that thing. They brought him back to life. But his body didn’t like...
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The Ultimate Cheat Sheet For Doing What You Love
I was doing what I hated. Working a job. Listening to a boss yell at me when he had a bad day with his wife. Working with people that I wouldn’t be friends with unless I had to sit next to them in a...
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The Worst Mistakes You Can Make In A Salary Negotiation
I’ve been an employer. And I’ve been an employee. And I’ve been on the board of a staffing agency and advised dozens of other companies on hires. I’ve seen every salary negotiation possible. 99.9% of...
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Jobs: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
The reality is: I took a job so I could have an excuse to move cities and slowly disintegrate the relationship with my girlfriend. I figured living 300 miles away would allow me to disengage from...
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