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How to Make Smarter Decisions by Designing Your Defaults

3 Mar 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Dastan

Default choices 90% of your daily decisions happen automatically, many shaped by your environment. Thus, most decisions are a habit, not a deliberate choice.To make smarter choices, design smarter defaults. And habits can be developed by shaping the...

The Simple Way to Achieve Every Single One of Your Goals

28 Feb 2020 5 minute read 0 comments Dastan

We all have goals and aspirations. Some are small micro goals like getting up 20 minutes earlier or walking to work more often. Some are larger like packing on 30 pounds of muscle or starting our own business. Whatever form our goals take and however...

The Power Paradox

26 Feb 2020 3 minute read 2 comments The BlackWolf

What happens when I live a life of perception, not one of completion; of manipulation, not communication? What happens when I live the persona, and not my life? I struggle to create, maintain, and even retain after attack a mere facade that looks not...

I Dropped Out of College Ten Years Ago. Here's What's Happened To Me.

25 Feb 2020 8 minute read 13 comments SkinnerCrypto

Okay guys, while I LOVE to talk about crypto and generally make a fool of myself on the internet, I felt like I'd get a bit real with you today. Why? Because after 10 years of being out of college, I finally got my shit together and I have myself a n...

You Have to Show Up. Every. Day.

22 Feb 2020 3 minute read 0 comments Dastan

There’s an old Woody Allen quotation that “80% of success is just showing up.” This quotation is used to motivate people to get started on what they want to achieve and has even helped me when thinking about the significance of competition (turns out...

How to deal with people you dislike but with whom you have to get along

18 Feb 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Dastan

People want to be liked. This sounds like a truism, which of course it is. With very rare exceptions such as clinically diagnosable sociopaths—who I'm not going to advise on without professional qualifications—people would rather be liked than not li...

VETO POWER: The Only Weapon You Need To Crush Your Temptations

17 Feb 2020 3 minute read 0 comments Dastan

You have promised yourself not to take that extra chocolate chip cookie, then, 10 minutes later you are staring with awe at its empty case… You have promised yourself to go jogging in the evening and suddenly the laziness monster creeps in and dissua...

The 10 Qualities of an Emotionally Intelligent Person

13 Feb 2020 7 minute read 2 comments Dastan

There are many different kinds of intelligence, and it’s our job to discover what they are and how to integrate them into our lives. Sources of intelligence can be measured in quotients. Most of us are familiar with IQ, or the intelligence quotient,...

This is How to Feel Fulfilled: Advice From Abraham Maslow

12 Feb 2020 4 minute read 2 comments Dastan

Do you feel like you have more potential than you’re expressing? Like there’s this gap between who you are and who you could be? That can be a frustrating place to be. Luckily, one of the most prominent psychologists of all time studied this exact pr...

Do You Like New Year's Resolutions or Do You Like Success?

31 Jan 2020 12 minute read 0 comments Real Well

Why You Shouldn't Be a "New Year, New You" Kinda Person The start of a new year—a new decade even—might seem like the perfect time to start fresh with your wellness commitments. But, after the first blush of that thought fades, you may want to recons...