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“If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.” Epictetus I often think about humility: how soon in life we lose it and how hard it is to get it back, if only momentarily. If you spend time with a small child, you’ll notice that they do the same activity over […]

This Week’s BIG Idea During a long walk this week, I kept thinking about an idea that wouldn’t go away. Everyone has two versions of themselves: the higher version and the lower one and this inner dichotomy creates constant tension. Although everyone’s higher and lower versions of themselves want something different, they all have something

This Week’s BIG Idea Habit formation has been one of my favorite topics to research since I started writing. After all, habits are the essential blocks of your life. What you do repeatedly says a lot about you and this determines your life’s trajectory. I’ve been thinking a lot about the 30-day challenges that involve

This Week’s BIG Idea Sometimes when I go over the collection of books I have on my Kindle, I ask myself a few questions. What do I want to learn about? I think that’s an important question because it implies that there are many things I don’t know about and learning about them has some

This Week’s BIG Idea How did the power of compounding help me grow my website? I celebrated the site’s second anniversary this week and couldn’t be happier. I had high hopes for the project when I started it back in 2022, but I had no idea what was going to happen. “Are people interested in

It’s that time of the year again when I share all of the books that I read. You’ll see that the books I read this year cover a variety of topics I’m interested in, such as philosophy, psychology, online marketing, and even some fiction. I’ve been thinking about narrowing down my interests so that the

This Week’s BIG Idea I just finished reading How to Think Like a Roman Emperor. The book serves as an introduction to both Marcus Aurelius and Stoicism. I really enjoyed the book, but more than anything, I loved re-reading about the Stoic tools to deal with setbacks in life. To be clear, Stoicism is a

This Week’s BIG Idea This week, I decided to identify some blind spots and work on them. This is extremely difficult because you can’t work on a problem if you don’t know you have one in the first place. In a way, this is the reason why I read so many psychology and philosophy books.

This Week’s BIG Idea Sometimes I don’t plan for things; they just happen. I spent a significant part of this week thinking about money. More specifically, I spent time thinking about spending money. At first, this wasn’t intentional. I listened to a podcast episode and the person being interviewed was a financial expert. That financial