Here I pause to say I know nothing of Ted Cruz's record of honesty. I have no idea whether he is better or worse than any other politician. I'm focusing on his physical appearance and Trump's...

You might be familiar with a television show that was called The Dog Whisperer. On the show, Cesar Millan, a dog-training expert, helped people get their seemingly insane dogs under control. Cesar's...

The most effective way to stop people from trying to persuade me is to say, 'I'm not interested.' You should try it. Don't offer a reason why you aren't interested. No one can say why a thing holds...

money distorts truth like a hippo in a thong.

Everything you want out of life is in that huge, bubbling vat of failure. The trick is to get the good stuff out.

I've long seen failure as a tool, not an outcome.

Persistence is useful, but there's no point in being an idiot about it.

This was about the time that my opinion of experts, and authority figures in general, began a steady descent that continues to this day.

If eating a healthy diet feels unpleasant, you're doing it wrong. And you're wasting your limited stockpile of willpower.

I also find it helpful to remind myself that every human is a mess on the inside. It's easy to assume the good-looking and well-spoken person in front of you has it all together and is therefore your...

Every generation before us believed, like Snickers, that it had things figured out. We now know that every generation before us was wrong about a lot of it. Is it likely that you were born at the...

Consider the people who routinely disagree with you. See how confident they look while being dead wrong? That's exactly how you look to them.

Inaccurate worldviews are the only kind there is.

Just remember to keep your eye out for ways to maximize your schedule freedom in the long term.

take care of yourself first and use that success as leverage to get everything else you need. I'll

The only reasonable goal in life is maximizing your total lifetime experience of something called happiness. That might sound selfish, but it's not. Only a sociopath or a hermit can find happiness...

Every other question has an answer to why. Onlyprobability is inexplicable.

The grand illusion of life is that our minds have the capacity to understand reality. But human minds didn't evolve to understand reality. We didn't need that capability. A clear view of reality...