Finally, I made it practical. I deleted a few social media apps from my phone. I stopped mindlessly scrolling. I used Pocket and Notion to save interesting articles, podcasts, and video interviews I wanted to watch. I joined communities and engaged with people who enjoyed brainstorming and debating new ideas. I listened to high-quality podcasts dur

When the pain levels began to feel insurmountable, Boone knew that if she lost control of her mind, she would inevitably lose control of her body. So she used the technique of “making friends with pain.” “I don’t ever want to see pain as an adversary. Pain is your friend.

“Your current behaviors are simply a reflection of your current identity. What you do now is a mirror image of the type of person you believe that you are (either consciously or subconsciously).”

Without realizing it, I had stumbled upon something I like to call people-focused learning, the notion that people and their stories are at the center of any learning pursuit.

Kerr had a seemingly contradictory but profound breakthrough: He realized that he wasn’t going to be successful if he idolized his mentors. “The main theme that came across over and over again in these conversations was, be yourself,” he says. “There’s no point in trying to be someone else. You can emulate somebody else, but you can’t be someone el

What saved his life? A 32-month prison sentence. It wasn’t until he went to the prison library and began teaching inmates to read that he woke up from his haze. “You’ll feel like for the first time in your life that you’re doing something for somebody else,” he writes. “That it’s not all about you. And your narcissism will start to wane.”

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Beliefs are best seen as grayscale—not black and white.

There’s truth to what Musk is saying, the writer notes. It is lonely at the top—but not for everyone. It’s lonely at the top for those who were lonely at the bottom. So what can we do today to make sure we don’t end up as anxious and lonely billionaires?