Chelsea Grant

With modern technology and resources, it is much easier to live in another country. However, there is more to consider than just packing your bags.

Each country offers a different introduction to expatriate life that should be carefully considered, such as vetting visas, health care, school tests, banking and taxes, and staying connected.

Not everyone achieves top-level success. There is far too much competition, noise and fragmentation in the world for everyone to shine through.

A lot of people are unique and highly skilled, but not everyone makes it. The key to being seen and heard in this noise is to be genuine, authentic and able to express your true self.

We are all drawn to the possibility of becoming our "best self" and work towards confidence and a great career.

Bestselling self-improvement books add credibility to this idea because they are often authored by highly successful people who assure us that we can also find the same success.

When learning, there are times in which you are focused and times in which you allow your mind to wander. Both modes are valuable to allow your brain to learn something.

Take regular breaks, meditate, think about other things, and give yourself plenty of time in both modes.

Brain dumping is an exercise where we comprehensively express and record our thoughts, ideas, or commitments from our heads onto a paper or a calendar.

• Boredom is the inability to pay attention, because a task is too difficult, too simple or doesn't feel meaningful to us at present.
• Boredom does not have to lead to poor choices. Understanding the reasons why people are bored is important in finding good solutions.

1. Learn faster and retain more by imagining that you have to teach someone else what you are learning. 
2. Sleeping between two learning sessions greatly improves retention.
3. Changing the way you practice a new motor skill can help you master it faster.
4. Dedicating 30-50 minutes sections to learning new material separated by 10 minute breaks is an efficient way of learning.
5. Make note cards by hand for the more difficult concepts you are trying to master so you can use them in idle moments.
6. Taking notes with pen and paper instead of digitally will help you learn and comprehend better as it takes more focus, making you listen more actively and better identify concepts.
7. Practice distributed learning, or “spacing.” It consists of reviewing the information one to two days after first studying it.
8. Downtime is important when it comes to retaining what you learn, and getting sleep in between study sessions can boost your recall up to six months later.

Non-places refer to spaces formed with certain ends (transport, commerce, leisure).

We often stand, lean or sit in these transitory public spaces hunched over our smartphones, but we don't experience them as places. Instead of noticing the rich detail these zones often display, they become spatial and visual white noise.

• If you time-traveled to the 1960s, or the 1980s, and tried to describe smartphones to the people you met, they wouldn’t believe you.
• It is an all-in-one piece of tech that lets you do practically anything.
• To people from previous generations, these would appear as Superpowers.
• Yet in the current age, a section of people are despising smartphones and want to get rid of them.