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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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You actually have a crystal ball that lets you look 10 years in the future

If you had a crystal ball that would show you your life in 20 years, would you look in it? “Ramit, you are getting better looking every year” You might be surprised to know that we all have a crystal ball exactly like this. Recently, when I went to my 10-year Stanford reunion, I hung out with an older ...

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What to say when you meet someone you admire

Read below to find out exactly 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 ...

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How to Systematically Cure Your Anxiety

Ever wonder how to cure anxiety? read on to find out how. 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 ...

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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 and start dealing with that anxiety... 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 #...

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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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Why you should give more than you get

One of my goals is to take the typical advice you hear, deconstruct it, and instead of telling you 25 things you “should” do, actually show you the one thing that works. In other words, is anyone else tired of experts telling you to “add value” without showing you HOW to do it? If your answer is HELL YES RAMIT, ...

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Ask Ramit: How do you practice improving social skills?

Read on for the ultimate guide to practice your 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?” ...

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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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