Personal Development Blog Posts - I Will Teach You To Be Rich

Scared of money? (Why & how to overcome your fear today)

The more I see people talk about money, the more I see how SCARED we are of it. How we let others poison our views of money. And how easily we use negative words to describe it. Here’s an email I got from someone who read my book, I Will Teach You To Be Rich. What do you notice? “...

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How we raised $10,000+ for a charity (actual metrics)

What happens when you try to raise money for a cause you care about? Recently, my wife and I held a fundraiser in NYC. We both come from families of immigrants and we wanted to raise money for families being separated at the border. What we’ve seen has made us feel helpless, outraged, and sad. But we also know ...

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Should you wear shoes indoors? (No, and here’s why)

The New York Times wrote an entire piece called Should You Take Your Shoes Off at Home? They consulted several experts to discuss this great philosophical question. There’s just one problem. They forgot to ask one person: Ramit Sethi. Like all Indian people, I can give you the correct answer to the question. YES, YOU TAKE YOUR DISGUSTING SHOES ...

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Why it’s so hard to find a great mentor or coach

Follow me on Twitter When I was a kid, my dad taught me how to shoot photography on a manual camera. I even learned how to develop my own film in a darkroom. But it’s been years since I practiced my photography skills. I really noticed it on my honeymoon last year. My iPhone was fine for most of ...

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How to be the best you can be (20 quick tips for mastery in life)

Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to know who the “best” was. The best skier. The best chicken curry. Superman, the best guy who flies. As I grew up, I found other examples of mastery where the very best tend to cluster. For example, some of my favorite examples of Mental Mastery are high-end restaurants, luxury hotels, ...

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Make people like you with Olivia Fox Cabane

Olivia Fox Cabane is the author of The Charisma Myth and has been featured in The Economist, Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and more. In this 15-minute clip we talk about why most social skills advice is garbage, and what actually works, including: 2:16 A common, habitual problem women tend to have that makes them seem overeager, ...

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How to talk to people (even if you don’t know what to say)

Do you ever feel like you don't know how to talk to people? You’ve probably been there before: You walk up to a group of friends talking. Stand there awkwardly while waiting for one of them to notice you. Wish for death.You start telling a story to a group of people and — in the middle of it — ...

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When to push, when to rest, when to quit

Imagine this: You set out writing a novel by the end of the year. You have your daily word count goal. You know exactly how your plot is going to go. And you set aside time at the beginning of each day to write. Great! For the first few weeks, everything goes well! You write each day and you’re ...

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3 strategic ways to achieve your goals

Goals are great — but often, the ways we achieve those goals are tedious, time-consuming, and (let’s face it) boring. Some examples: To run a marathon, you must train and run dozens of miles each week. To write a book, you must sit down and write thousands of words each day. To clean your house, you must … well, clean your ...

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How to set goals and achieve them with the RIGHT reward

Chocolate can help you lose weight. No, seriously. It can. Or at least that’s what Charles Duhigg, habit expert and author of The Power of Habit, says: “Although it seems like very dissimilar rewards, it’s actually very similar in a neurological perspective … What happens is that chocolate is an extrinsic reward. You’re eating it and it tastes ...

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