What? You’ve never heard of a Blue Zone? Don’t worry, most people haven’t. These are regions of the world where the people live to be 100 years old or more and they do it happily and healthily. The cultures in Blue Zones are polar opposites to what we know here in the west. Yeah, I [...]
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How to Live the Luxury Lifestyle for Less
This is a guest post by Sean Ogle, founder of Location Rebel and his latest project Hacking the High Life, which teaches you how to create incredible stories on the cheap. It was September of 2011 and I’d just moved to Bali, Indonesia for two months. I was eating my $4 breakfast feast at a local café when [...]
3 Ridiculous Popular Beliefs About Learning that Hold Us Back
Some ideas never die, no matter how little fact they’re based in. Popular misconceptions can be fairly harmless, like the belief that it’s dangerous to wake a sleepwalker (in fact it can be very dangerous not to wake a sleepwalker). In other cases misconceptions can be dangerous or limiting. False beliefs about how we learn [...]
Definitive Guide to Fitness Reps, Sets, Tempo, & Rest
Becoming an expert can be a serious time commitment and both physically and mentally draining. However, being Expert Enough means your smart enough to know that all you really need to understand are the most valuable or key concepts in a given area. Whether that be rapid language learning, nuances of the tango, or honing [...]
The 7 Rules of Highly Effective Habits
This is a guest post by Barrie Davenport of Live Bold & Bloom. I have a coaching client who weighed over 400 lbs. She never exercised and ate a poor diet consisting of a lot of junk food and sweets. She didn’t socialize much because she was embarrassed about her appearance. At age 33, she’d [...]
Learn Anything Faster with the Feynman Technique
After recording Wednesday’s Expert Enough show with Scott H. Young, I spent some time over on his YouTube channels (he has one for his blog and a separate one for the MIT Challenge we discussed in the episode). This particular gem below really stood out. The Feynman Technique (named after the Nobel prize winning physicist) [...]
Why You Need a Relentless Pursuit
Think about the world-changing people you admire most for a moment. These people can be from any field or walk of life. It doesn’t matter. Just think about the truly remarkable people you look up to most. Now think about how each of these people got to where they are today. Did any of them [...]
How Ari Meisel Beat Crohn’s Disease Through Experimentation
This is a guest post by Ari Meisel of Less Doing. Back in 2007 I was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, which is a horribly painful, supremely embarrassing and most importantly, incurable disease. At the time I was about 30 pounds heavier than I am now, incredibly weak, in pain pretty much every day and spending [...]
Reach That Goal! 3 Key Steps to Get You to Any Finish Line
This is a guest post by Jonathan Haye of Clarity Impulse. Enthusiasm. A word that makes me cringe. I’m always dazzled at the number of projects people start but never actually finish. Often, people start under the impulse of excitement and confidence, only to abandon the goals they had set in a couple of months, [...]
Frightening Math About Time Wasting
Please allow my friend, Mathematics, to throw you down to the curb, poke you in the eye, and then proudly lift you up and show you off on its numerical shoulders. Regardless of your memories gritting your teeth through it in high school, making fun of the teacher, and stealing answers from that person in [...]
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