Why Procrastination Could Be Your Superpower
First, I need to address the elephant in the room. After I post this here’s what many comments and tweets will immediately say: “I want to read this but I will put it off until later.” Or some...
View ArticleJim Norton And The Art Of Making People Laugh
Jim Norton is the reason why I do podcasts. First, he’s a world-famous comedian, recently released a one hour special on Netflix, has been on shows like “Louie” and “Inside Amy Schumer” has written two...
View ArticleHow I Used The Power of Stupidity To Not Stay A Dumb Failure
The worst moment in my life was when I thought I was at the peak of my intelligence. I honestly thought I was the smartest person on the planet. I had built and sold a company that year, something I...
View ArticleFred Stoller And The Art Of Making It In Five Minutes
You have five minutes to kill. That’s it. Those five minutes can make or break a career. I don’t think I would be able to handle the pressure. I’ve done a lot of public speaking. And now I’ve tried...
View ArticleThings I Do To Guarantee Failure For Myself And Others
Here are 10 things I do to guarantee failure for myself and everyone else around me. Date Someone Who Is Dating Someone Else They are not trustworthy, which means I become untrustworthy. They won’t be...
View ArticleWhat I Learnt About Being A Warrior From Jocko Willink
I was afraid before interviewing Jocko Willink. I think it was instinctual. His body is seven times the size of mine. I pointed at the cover of his new book, “The Way of The Warrior Kid.” “See this...
View ArticleThe 5 Biggest Assumptions I’ve Made About Business
After starting about 20 businesses and being invested in about 30 more at this moment, I’ve probably seen most of what you can see. I’ve been on the boards of billion revenue companies and tiny...
View ArticleBusines 101: How I Made My First Million And Lost It Later
There’s a lot of disgustingly bad books and articles about habits for millionaires and the business they created. AWFUL. I won’t say the titles. I have a lot of respect for the authors even though they...
View ArticleHow I’ve Used Ideas To Jumpstart My Career Many Times
[The picture is of me, this past Monday, going over my list of joke ideas right before going on stage to do some standup comedy at StandupNY on 78th and Broadway. 10 ideas a day works for anything.]...
View ArticleWhy Scot Cohen Is The Best Networker On The Planet. Period.
Scot Cohen is the best networker on the planet. I have never seen anything like it. And he used that skill to make tens of millions of dollars, not only for himself but for many others. I wanted him to...
View ArticleInspiration 101: The Nine Surefire Causes Of Failure
My resume: I begged the teacher to not give me an F, for failure, so, out of kindness, he gave me a D-. Only then did I have the minimum GPA to graduate college. I tried to write several novels but...
View ArticleThe Only Two Ways To Relieve Stress. Which One Did Paul McCartney Choose?
Paul McCartney’s guitar string broke. He couldn’t play it anymore. The Beatles were just starting, nobody knew them, and they were playing eight hours a day in strip clubs in Hamburg just to pay the...
View ArticleThe First Thing To Do After A Massive Failure
I was told that within one day I was going to lose all of my money. It was a complete surprise. I got a phone call for an emergency board meeting. “Maybe good news!” I thought. Leaving out the details,...
View ArticleGary Vaynerchuk: Set A Flag On Your Thing
Is Gary Vaynerchuk a lunatic? This is what I ask myself every time I sit down to interview him. He’s everywhere. He’s constantly spreading a message I strongly believe in: if you don’t choose yourself,...
View Article8 Things You Need To Know About CryptoCurrencies
In 1994, I was working for HBO at a low-level programming job. I had begged for the job and I wasn’t qualified but they gave it to me anyway because my boss’s boss’s boss was a fan of chess and he...
View Article13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do
I don’t like writers. Stop writing advice books if you’ve never lived through it. Just. Stop. That’s why I asked Amy Morin, author of “13 Things Mentally Strong People DON’T Do” on my podcast (released...
View ArticleThe Way You Do Anything, Is The Way You Do Everything [INFOGRAPHIC]
I do standup comedy now up to six times a week. And I’m even less reluctant to write about it now than when I went up zero times a week. Because of the simple cliche: the more I DO, the less I KNOW....
View Article10 Unusual Things I Learned From Mr. X
The FBI went to his high school when the 15-year-old Mr. X hacked into the largest Internet company in the world and stole 90 million credit card numbers. “You are going to jail for a long time,” they...
View ArticleRichard Branson-How He Found A Gap In The Market And Became The Billionaire...
I want to be there that moment, “and then everything in my life changed”. It always seems there’s no “right place” and “right time”. The right place is always far away. The right time was always a long...
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Sheila Nevins: The HBO Producer Who Dawned the Era of the Human Experience
Before Sheila Nevins, no one cared about our human stories. “I felt that there could be a performance in every man, that every man could perform his life or his situation or his trauma or his successes...
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