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How To Motivate Yourself: 3 easy tricks (backed by science)

So you want to know how to motivate yourself... Do you know what most motivational “experts” hope you’ll never find out? The stuff they teach is total BS if you actually want to know how to motivate yourself. When was the last time a motivational poster changed your life? ("You know what, yes, I WILL dream a little bigger ...

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What to say when you meet someone you admire

This week, we're talking about mastery. Maybe you want to be better at cooking or fashion or writing. Please god don’t tell me you want to improve your skills at tax-loss harvesting. I have enough nerds for readers. So here’s a question: What do you do when you meet someone you admire? I’ve stood there before tongue-tied. ...

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What’s the best thing you learned from your parents?

It’s no secret that my parents had a HUGE impact on the person I am today. In fact, I’d say they were the biggest reason I’m so passionate about personal finance and development. These are my actual parents, not a stock photo! I remember walking around department stores with my mom when I was a kid and ...

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How to Systematically Cure Your Anxiety

If there’s one thing I love, it’s “The Emperor Has No Clothes” moments when you realize everyone’s feeling something...but nobody is saying it. It happened when I finally got behind closed doors with my friends and we started telling the truth. How many of us sit and stare at screens for over 8 hours/day? How ...

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How to stop feeling overwhelmed: If you feel overwhelmed by your life, here's an effective technique for conquering those feelings so you can accomplish more

Feeling Overwhelmed? How To Crush Your Anxiety (Right Now)

So you want to know how to stop feeling overwhelmed... Well, are you tired of people blowing smoke up our generation’s asses and not telling us the truth? LIE #1: Parents telling their kids that they can be anything they want (even kids who never built the discipline to finish their homework) LIE #2: TV “experts” -- and even ...

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How to win any competition you enter

I always love when people don’t try for something because they’re sure they won’t get it. “I’m not going to apply to XYZ College...I’ll never get in, and even if I did, I could never afford it.” “There’s no way I would ever get that job...you need 10 years of experience.” “What? ...

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How to Acquire Any New Skill in 20 Hours or Less

A while ago, I invited one of my friends, Josh Kaufman, to talk about mental frameworks (like the ones I used to answer hundreds of emails/day). As a reminder, Josh founded PersonalMBA.com and is one of the deepest thinkers on systems that I know. Today, I’ve invited him back to talk about the process of how to ...

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Ask Ramit: How do you practice improving social skills?

Earlier this week, I was at a dinner party with a few friends. As I was sitting in my usual position of reclining, drinking and telling dirty jokes, I spotted my mortal enemy: an avocado. “Hey,” I asked my friend, “can you show me how to cut an avocado?” Twice this week, I got an avocado sent to me. The ...

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How I learned to believe in myself

A few weeks ago, I asked you to send me your toughest, most burning questions. I got thousands of responses, and I'll be answering as many as I can in the upcoming months. Here was one of the most surprising ones I got: People wanted to know how to start believing in themselves. For example: "What was the first thing ...

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How to get unstuck (new 1-hour mini-course with BJ Fogg)

You know when you go to the gym for 3 months straight, then miss a day (“I’ll go tomorrow...”) ...then you end up skipping the next 3 weeks? Why do we stop doing things we actually want to do? Jerry Seinfeld knew why -- and he knew the secret of momentum: He told me to get a big wall ...

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