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A number of weeks before I turned twenty-eight I began to experience a kind of urgency. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that twenty-eight is only two years from thirty, or that twenty-seven is fairly close to twenty-five but twenty-eight is not. I began to feel that something wasn’t getting done quickly [...]
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Why, exactly, do you need an excuse? Why do you need a program? Or a scholarship, or a recommendation, or a mandate, or an initiative, or somebody else’s carefully crafted plan? Why not execute your own carefully crafted plan?* Why do you have to wait for opportunity to knock? You can make your own opportunity, [...]
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I have a confession to make. I’m a (super) lazy reader. I have always read very quickly and easily—reading is fun. Reading is a relaxing, soothing activity. It’s like trying to absorb information while sleeping; it’s effortless. This made especial sense when all I read was fiction growing up (sci-fi, fantasy, dragons, witches, magic horses, [...]
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Remember this: Would you like to rephrase that more positively? Yes, that. Remember that? Tonight Tim Ferriss made a post regarding the ejection of certain words from one’s vocabulary. He suggests this for slightly different reasons than I originally discussed, but still interesting, still valid! He takes familiar staples such as ‘should’ and adds grand [...]
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