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...

The only way to succeed in the long run is by using a system that bypasses your need for willpower.

I would define an asshole as anyone who chooses to make the lives of others less pleasant for reasons that don't appear productive or necessary.

If you give an ant infinite time, it can move a mountain all by itself.

Managing your personal energy is like managing budgets in a company.

I've explained to a number of people my observations about how exercise, diet, and sleep influence mood. The usual reaction is a blank expression followed by a change of topic. No one wants to believe...

Pessimism is often a failure of imagination. If you can imagine the future being brighter, it lifts your energy and gooses the chemistry in your body that produces a sensation of happiness.

Successwise, you're better off being good at two complementary skills than being excellent at one.

In the long run, any system that depends on your willpower will fail.

Goals are for losers. Your mind isn't magic. It's a moist computer you can program. The most important metric to track is your personal energy. Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success....

Another huge advantage of learning as much as you can in different fields is that the more concepts you understand, the easier it is to learn new ones. Imagine explaining to an extraterrestrial...

Scott: What's the cure?Doctor: There is none.Scott: But that isn't what I heard. The optimist in me translated the gloomy news as "Scott, you will be the first person in the world to be cured of...

If you believe people use reason for the important decisions in life, you will go through life feeling confused and frustrated that others seem to have bad reasoning skills.

Focus on your diet first and get that right so you have enough energy to want to exercise.

You should also try to figure out which people are thing people and which ones are people people.

Adults are starved for a kind word. When you understand the power of honest praise {as opposed to bullshitting, flattery, and sucking up}, you realize that withholding it borders on immoral. If you...