Now come up with your own strategies

In school, your teachers worked out a lesson plan and made sure you were aiming in the right direction. When you're teaching yourself, you have to do it yourself.

• Deconstruct and select: Every skill can be broken down into pieces. Find out what are the minimal learna...

Doing things for others and living a life of meaning is important. But without energy, you can’t do your best work.

If you want to make a difference for years to come, you have to put your health and energy first.

You can encourage yourself to do more vulnerable things by finding a friend who embraces discomfort.

Maybe it’s a networking thing, or karaoke, or surf lessons. Whatever the activity, having a friend by your side makes an uncomfortable thing a little less anxiety-inducing so you ca...