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Shia LeBeouf on Motivating Yourself
Watch this every morning and you will achieve great things either from inspiration or from a drive to never have to watch it again to be motivated.
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Can You Be an Accountant Without a CPA?
I had an interesting conversation with the other day with the guy who is in charge of talent acquisition for an extremely successful company about hiring accountants. We were talking about different...
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Deschooling Your Writing: How to Write for Real People (Not Teachers)
I’ve always enjoyed writing. It is one of the few activities through which I can fairly regularly achieve a state of flow and really focus my efforts into an act of creation. I’ve been pretty good at...
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Hunter S. Thompson on Reaching a Goal and Enjoying Life
[A] man must choose a path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward the gratification of his DESIRES. In doing this, he is fulfilling a need (giving himself identity by...
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How to Drop Out of College and Drop Into Something Better
College may be an opportunity for lots of people, but you are young, ambitious, looking to take control of your own life. College feels like an extension of high school and, with it, an extension of...
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This Philosopher Says You Don’t Need a PhD to Be a Philosopher
Steve Patterson is a freelance philosopher…who doesn’t have a PhD (or even an undergraduate degree in philosophy). Spending his time primarily on issues of philosophy of mind and epistemology, Steve...
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What makes a professional philosopher?
After I shared my recent feature with Steve Patterson (below), an outcry from several followers and friends on social media declaring that one cannot professionally philosophize outside of academia led...
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There Never Was a Golden Age of Higher Ed
The popular notion that there was a golden age of higher education tends to argue that higher education once was a place where young people came to have their minds opened by erudite academics, gain...
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The University and Secondary Education, by John O. Nelson
This article first appeared in the December 1967 issue of The Freeman, printed by the Foundation for Economic Education. It can be found recently digitized here. It is noteworthy for its date of...
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This Week’s Roundup
Here are a few links to articles I’ve published in the past week. Uberocracy: How the Sharing Economy Changes Politics Medium (original publication) Anything Peaceful (republished) Reason Magazine Hit...
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Why Philosophy Matters: Let’s Think Clearly About Our Lives
It’s back-to-school time and millions of young Americans are off to participate in the ritual of taking required classes for four years and somehow becoming a more well-rounded person and a better...
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Why Philosophy Matters: Live With Integrity
In yesterday’s post, I defended the study of philosophy by non-philosophers for the value its analytic tools give us. Philosophy is the discipline and set of tools through which we live our lives in...
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Why Don’t Philosophers Grapple With Love?
While studying philosophy in college, I was given the opportunity to have a research project supported by the University. I had been working with a professor on moral psychology of guilt, contempt,...
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How Schools Limit Our Lives With Permission
May I go to the bathroom? May I borrow a pencil? May I have next Monday off to go on a family vacation? These questions and ones like them are going to be asked countless times today and over the...
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Five of My Beliefs You Probably Don’t Like
I hold a number of beliefs that I don’t think are particularly popular and I try to write about them here pretty often. I do this both so that I can get discussions going and see where I actually...
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What’s the Difference Between a Small Business and a Startup?
It can seem like everything is a startup nowadays. Somehow both the app that shows smiley faces when you tap it that your neighbor built in his dorm room and Uber, a $54B company with thousands of...
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What Are We Doing to Children With Schooling?
The following originally appeared at the Students For Liberty blog. I’ll be joining them at their Philadelphia, Ohio, and Florida Gulf Coast Regional Conferences this fall. Imagine an institution that...
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Deschooling Isn’t the Opposite of Structure — It’s the Height of It
I’ve never let my schooling interfere with my education. — Mark Twain I was fortunate enough to speak at an event in San Francisco this summer about the necessity of deschooling yourself for leading a...
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How to Build Your Self-Esteem by Deschooling Yourself
Self-esteem is at the core of living a happy life. By “self-esteem” I don’t mean the stuff of cheesy motivational posters or overpriced workshops with goofball speakers. I don’t mean books written by...
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There’s almost always some article going around on Facebook about the “best colleges for ROI” or “the best majors for ROI.” These usually don’t get to me too much despite being entirely grounded in the...
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