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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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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? What makes us "stuck" and how do we get unstuck? Jerry Seinfeld knew why -- and he knew the secret ...

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The Big Wins Manifesto

What do I mean by Big Wins? Compare two people trying to get an edge in life. John, 28, earns $62,000/year as a project manager. He used to have $8,200 in credit card debt from overspending, but he’s been slowly paying it down over the last two years and now it’s at $6,400. How? ...

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