Category: personal-development
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Stop Searching for Your Passion: Do What You Do
In many self-help and career blogs, people wax lyrical about how you should not cease searching for your ‘passion’; that elusive cause that you would be happy to devote your life to… something that makes ‘work’ feel like ‘play’. Gretchen Rubin of The Happiness Project, however, believes that asking yourself, “What’s my passion” may not…
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Top 10 ‘Gen Y’ Blogs
Ryan Stephens has produced a list of the top ten blogs for Generation Y. It’s an excellent list containing a number of blogs I already subscribe to; those I don’t read I’ll be checking out soon. Personal Branding Blog Hard Knox Life Employee Evolution Driven Leaders Newly Corporate Ben Casnocha Brazen Careerist: Penelope Trunk I…
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100 Skills Every Man Should Know
Popular Mechanics has come up with a list of 100 Skills Every Man Should Know. Even though it has more diversity than The Independent‘s list, I don’t think it’s as good. Topics covered include: Automotive Handling Emergencies Home Medical Myths Military Know-How Outdoors Primitive Skills Surviving Extremes Teach Your Kids Technology Master Key Workshop Tools…
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Fight Club’s 8 Rules to Live By
Simple yet excellent. Lateral Action presents 8 Fight Club quotes everyone (not just ‘creators’) should live by. At its core, Fight Club is about living the life you truly want to live, and the hard path to getting there. Tyler helps the story’s nameless hero (usually referred to as Jack) down that path to enlightenment,…
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Randy Pausch Lectures
By now I’m sure everyone has watched, listened to, or at the very least heard of, Randy Pausch’s lecture Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams which he gave at Carnegie Mellon University a year ago today (the lecture is more commonly referred to as The Last Lecture). Since then I’ve watched two more speeches by Pausch…
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On Business Books, Self-Education, and Mental Models
I mentioned the Personal MBA Book List last week, and today have come across this interview between Josh Kaufman and Ben Casnocha, author of My Start-Up Life. Josh runs the Personal MBA Recommended Reading List — a list of the best business books one would need to read for a comprehensive business education. It’s a…
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The Ambition Defect
Scott Adams—the author famous for his Dilbert comic—has an interesting take on ambition: I think ambition is a genetic defect. You can’t have ambition unless you think there is something wrong with the way you are. Ambition is a state of feeling perpetually flawed.
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A List of How-To Sites
Last month an article appeared in The New York Times Magazine praising how-to websites. Now it’s acting as my personal list of how-to websites, helping teach me everything from Chinese dining etiquette to surviving zombie attacks and plating fettuccine Alfredo. Howcast eHow WonderHowTo Instructables SuTree VideoJug ExpertVillage Get Rid of Things How to Clean Things How…
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The Personal MBA Book List
The Personal MBA is a site dedicated to helping people gain an MBA education without the expense of business school. It’s a self-study guide to advanced business topics and concepts. As Kevin Kelly—the founding executive director of Wired—says: No matter what they tell you, an MBA is not essential for landing or handling a good…