The Most Valuable Thing You Can Do Right Now: Author Yourself
This piece was originally published at The Mission. I consider myself a pretty ambitious person. There are things I want to accomplish, people I want to influence, and places I want to see. But it is...
View Article“I’m a Young Professional and Want to Earn More Money”
“I’m a young professional and I want to earn some more money. Where do I start?” I get a question like this pretty often from young people getting started in their careers. Hungry to apply themselves,...
View Article5 Reasons Your Email Didn’t Get a Reply
Being able to send an email that gets replies from people can be the difference between closing a big deal and having to cut back on spending for the month, the difference between landing your dream...
View ArticleAmbitionMapping for Educators is Now Available
After running a number of workshops where I’ve been able to teach AmbitionMapping as a tool for educators to help students find their focus, I’ve decided to launch a small AmbitionMapping workbook that...
View ArticleHow to Figure Out What to Learn and What to Outsource to Others
Your time is scarce. You have to choose where to spend it. With a plethora of options available to you to learn new skills, how do you choose which ones to take the time to learn and which ones to...
View ArticleAre All Homeschoolers Butter-Churning, Ultra-Traditional Weirdos?
I really enjoy working with homeschoolers. I wasn’t always a huge advocate for self-education, though. Like most people, I had biases and stereotypes in my mind. Those changed by actually going out and...
View ArticleHow Learning Social Skills, Not STEM, Will Improve Your Career
This is a guest post by Christos Makridis on economic research about the importance of interpersonal social skills in accelerating your career. Christos is a PhD candidate at Stanford University, a...
View ArticleFrameworks for Making Better Decisions: Opportunity Cost
I hate hacks. “Life hacks,” “career hacks,” “date hacks,” “productivity hacks,” or “fitness hacks.” Hacking something together makes sense in the right context – working at a hackathon or finding a...
View ArticleShould You Go to Grad School?
A relatively successful friend of mine told me the other day that she was thinking of going to grad school. This caught me off-guard because her career doesn’t need grad school. She hasn’t tapped out...
View ArticleGUEST POST: Should I Get a PhD and Become a Professor?
This is a guest post by Professor Jason Brennan, the Robert J. and Elizabeth Flanagan Family Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at the McDonough School of Business and...
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