10,000 hours to be considered an expert is bullshit. Perpetuated by Malcolm Gladwell’s book “Outliers,” the biggest takeaway is that fact: To be considered the best and an expert, you need to spend 10,0000 hours (or roughly 10 years) of deliberate practice. Deliberate practice is more nuanced than merely practicing something for a long time. […]
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When it comes to narcissism, we like to think we have a good eye for that sort of thing. Maybe some of you read my previous post and are listening more to feelings of unease, how they use micromanipulation, or how most of these individuals are not that great people. Even though narcissists are victims in their own
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With the rise of mass production during the Industrial Revolution, another phenomenon was also on the rise: boredom. Historically, we could see this coming as mass production demanded people perform the same repetitive task for 12 hours straight, all day, every day. Shifting from what was being done before to this suddenly brought a wave
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When it comes to being a better human, there’s no specific direction that people need to take. A lot of it is subjective too, making some of this type of advice rather flimsy. Generally, gurus will either provide various traits to pick up or point to a lot of popular individuals as examples. But over
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Gary Chapman’s famous book, The 5 Love Languages, clearly establishes that different people need different things in order to feel loved. He uses his book to outline what these love languages are, but also includes a test to determine which category you fall into. You could feel loved if you spent time with loved ones or getting
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My favourite productivity app for a time was SoundCloud. It’s not your traditional productivity app, as it just plays music. There’s no accountability feature, timers, notifications, or anything of the sort. For me, it was the occasional music player that I used when I needed to get into a writing zone and I had trouble
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Typically I save this post for Facebook and publish it on the 31st of December. But with my habit of publishing an article here every Sunday, I wanted to make a more personable post sharing my thoughts here. It’s a sort of new years tradition for me to record my thoughts overall during the past
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Every single person in the world has talent. The larger question at hand is whether or not you truly know if it’s a talent or not. With talent, there comes an air of certainty and confidence. That whatever it is that you are doing is something that you can do well, without even spending much
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Making the switch to a rural lifestyle may seem like a daunting task, but with careful planning and preparation, it can be a smooth transition. Moving from the hustle and bustle of the city to a rural area can have many benefits for your family – including more time together, a stronger sense of community,
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One of the largest questions that the self-improvement industry tries to answer is what makes for a happy life. Philosophically, it’s akin to what is the meaning of life and trying to find your life purpose. While it’s incredibly thought-provoking, self-help gurus have used that for decades to the point that it’s a trope. Even
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In this life, you have to make sure you’re keeping yourself in the best possible place both mentally and physically. You’re going to likely go through difficult life situations because life has a way of throwing more challenges at us than we’d like. We have to make sure we’re in the right place to combat
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The more professional and productive you are at work or in your business, the more money you can make or the better you can do at your job. In short, being productive is a very good thing. But it’s not always obvious; sometimes you need to turn off to do your best or relax to
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