weekly Go Flip Yourself

You don’t have to do things others do, or have things they have, at the expense of the deeper things you want. You really don’t. Almost everything is an option. You have full permission to ask yourself what really matters to you—whatever that is—and then optimize for that in all hard tradeoffs of life.

• relationship between money and happiness

• how to manage money with your kids

• giving money to either taxes, kids or charities

• tha avalanche story: most important decisions of our lives are tiny, little, snap ones

• deep down: desire and need to impress other people

• respect for my body, respect for my relationships, respect for my family -- i don't wanna be fat, i wanna stay married, i wanna be there for my kids

I don’t know all the ways to get our good intentions unblocked. That’s why, whenever I spot someone changing the world via a righteous road less taken, I write it down on a little list. I glance at that list from time to time as a way of expanding my imagination, and now I’m sharing it in the hopes that it’ll do the same for you.

Long-term thinking suddenly makes short-term thinking appear incredibly silly.

society has moved towards an overabundance of caution around kids