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If You Want Uncommon Clarity, Ask Yourself Uncommonly Specific Questions

Living a Fulfilling Life

It takes about the same amount of energy to sustain a mediocre life as it does to build a fulfilling life. Mediocre choices will get you mediocre results. Making world-class choices can produce world-class success.

Stop making excuses for your limiting behavior and get more specific:

Find out exactly what you want.
Find out who you are.
Find out where you're going.

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How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You) - Wait But Why

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Hey readers! Quick note before we jump in: This is a post about something I've been wanting to write about forever: careers. Society tells us a lot of things about what we should want in a career and what the possibilities are-which is weird because I'm pretty sure society knows very little about any of this.

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The Real Career Landscape

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If you can figure out how to get a reasonably accurate picture of the real career landscape out there, you have a massive edge over everyone else, most of whom will be using outdated convention...

The career pitfall

Careers used to be kind of like a 40-year tunnel. You picked your tunnel, and once you were in, that was that. You worked in that profession for 40 years or so before the tunnel spit you out on the other side into your retirement.

Today’s career landscape isn’t a lineup of tunnels, it’s a massive, impossibly complex, rapidly changing science laboratory.

Why Career-path-carving is important.

Time. A typical career will take up somewhere between 20% and 60% of your meaningful adult time.

Quality of Life. Your career has a major effect on all your non-career hours.

Impact. Whatever shape your career path ends up taking, the world will be altered by it.

Identity. We tell people about our careers by telling them what we are.

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The Ultimate Daily Schedule

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Aristotle is credited with saying these 15 famous words. And for most of my life...I didn't believe him. I fought against cultivating good habits and routines because I didn't want to feel like I had to live my life by other people's rules. I wanted to be my own person and do my own thing.

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Routines and structure

Having no routine or structure is so much more draining mentally, physically, and emotionally than any routine could ever be.

You're depriving your body and mind of the energy an...

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Brian Tracy

"Good habits are hard to form but easy to live with. Bad habits are easy to form but hard to live with."

No e-mails in the morning

If you immediately check your email or social media accounts when you wake up in the morning, you’re starting your day off in reactive mode instead of proactive. It means spending the best part of the day on other people's priorities.

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Wise People Have Rules For Themselves

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Every time I post a new behavioral experiment, or share a personal resolution of some kind, I get a few emails telling me not to be so strict with myself. They always say something like "It's not good to be [...]

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Patterns in successful people

Wherever they excel, they tend to have personal rules that they take very seriously:

Financially effective people tend to hold themselves to certain rules about money.

Setting standards

Your quality of life improves when you set clear standards for how you live.

You gravitate back towards “so-so” in any area where your standards are unclear.

Dismissing self-discipline

This notion that personal rules constitute “forcing yourself” is just a way of dismissing self-discipline as a possibility, for oneself or others.

For example: brushing your teeth every day doesn’t require any sort of forcing or obsessing, just dental hygiene standards you consider non-negotiable.

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