This truth becomes even more true when you become an expert in a field.

Do them today.

Having a dream is a great place to start.

I’m not highly motivated. I don’t have amazing willpower or self-control.

The future can be scary, but there are ways to deal with that fear

Less congestion is always a huge plus.

There are two states of being: surviving and thriving. To survive is to limit downside, to eliminate the risk of ruin — it means fulfilling our basic need for food and shelter and companionship. Thriving is different: It’s an attempt to transcend a state of existence not out of fear but out of desire and yearning.

How do creative people come up with great ideas? Organizational psychologist Adam Grant studies "originals": thinkers who dream up new ideas and take action to put them into the world. In this talk, learn three unexpected habits of originals — including embracing failure. "The greatest originals are the ones who fail the most, because they're the ones who try the most," Grant says. "You need a lot of bad ideas in order to get a few good ones."

The clock is ticking louder. And we’re all on time that we borrowed from the universe, and our supply is running out. So what do we do? What do we do, now that we feel we might have wasted more time than we have left?

How much do you procrastinate? How much time do you waste on crap that doesn’t matter, that you don’t care about, that you don’t even want to be throwing your precious seconds, minutes and hours on? I’m guessing a lot.

The art of getting what you need.

“Time management” is not a solution — it’s actually part of the problem.

Research reveals strategies for staying motivated in the face of challenges 

Before we can develop effective routines, we have to envision what “success” actually means to us. Admittedly, it’s easier to just adopt someone else’s habits. Among the billion pieces of content claiming to hold the recipe for success, there are a few common ingredients, from working double-time like Elon Musk to rising before the sun like Apple CEO Tim Cook.

Let’s get medieval, and learn from the great tools for concentration practised by the nuns and monks of the Middle Ages

This is a system I only somewhat tongue in cheek refer to as “The Fully General System For Learning To Do Hard Things”. It’s a useful conceptual framework for how to get better at things that you currently find difficult.

Imposter syndrome goes beyond genuine humility. It lies about your own accomplishments and exaggerates the accomplishments of others. And the worst part of imposter syndrome isn’t how it makes you feel – it’s what it makes you stop doing that you really want to do.

If you keep an open mind, there's more chance you'll catch the big ideas.

A thought piece on what it takes to truly be great and what that even means in the first place.

Writer Dorothea Lasky ruminates on the nature of creativity, witchcraft, and the eternal nobility of being an artist.