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How ‘Succession’ Turns Getting What You Want Into Hell
The characters in HBO’s prestige hit let us set aside judgment and just marvel at how ardently, how comically, people will chase after the worst thing for them. Two years ago, as HBO’s “Succession” finished its second season, we saw Logan Roy, the head of a right-wing media empire, looking for someone in his inner circle to serve as the scapegoat for a corporate scandal. One candidate was his hapless son-in-law, Tom Wambsgans.
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You're Never too Old to Be a Success
Just because you’re approaching the mid-century mark (or even well past it) doesn’t mean you’re too old to be a success and make your dreams come true.
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15 Highly Successful Female Founders Share Their Business Secrets
What does it take to become a highly successful female founder or CEO today? The research team from small business financing company OnDeck decided to find out.
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If You’re so Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich? Turns out It’s Just Chance.
The most successful people are not the most talented, just the luckiest, a new computer model of wealth creation confirms. Taking that into account can maximize return on many kinds of investment. The distribution of wealth follows a well-known pattern sometimes called an 80:20 rule: 80 percent of the wealth is owned by 20 percent of the people. Indeed, a report last year concluded that just eight men had a total wealth equivalent to that of the world’s poorest 3.8 billion people.
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Does testosterone drive success in men? Not much, our research suggests
There’s a widespread belief that your testosterone can affect where you end up in life. At least for men, there is some evidence for this claim: several studies have linked higher testosterone to socioeconomic success. But a link is different to a cause and using DNA, our new research suggests it may be much less important for life chances than previously claimed.
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Understanding self-sabotage: The enemy within
Self-sabotage doesn’t make sense. We make plans for our future selves, but when we desperately need to take action to advance our plans, we choose to get in our own way — we procrastinate, become extremely self-critical, or make excuses.
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58 Characteristics of Highly Successful People [The Ultimate List]
Highly successful people have gotten where they are because they work hard. However, is there a secret recipe beyond sweat and tears? To succeed...
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Apple CEO Tim Cook explains why you don't need a college degree to be successful
While a four-year college degree has become a common requirement for many jobs in the United States, even for positions that did not previously require one, Apple CEO Tim Cook is taking a different stance. According to Cook, there are certain in-demand skills that students may not learn in college — namely, coding.
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How To Succeed At Anything
You want to know how to succeed at anything? — It’s simple. Start, keep going and don’t stop until you succeed. That is how to succeed at anything. Three steps. A beginning, a middle and an end. We don’t like to think about an ‘end.’ It seems too practical and measurable and perhaps even shallow. Thinking of ‘success’ as a ‘destination’ tends to conjure images of horrendous personal cost and regret at the lost family time — a life of failing to stop and smell roses.
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The Western Elite from a Chinese Perspective
Is there someone, sitting in a comfortable chair somewhere, flipping a coin from time to time, deciding what happens in the world? By Puzhong Yao.
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One Man’s Journey From Welfare to World’s Hottest Video Game
Three years ago, Brendan Greene was on welfare in his hometown of Kildare, Ireland, getting an earful from social workers about how he should stop wasting time developing free computer games. “They were telling me to look for jobs or I’ll be cut off,’’ says Greene. “I kind of ignored them.”
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13 things mentally strong people don't do
Mental strength isn't often reflected in what you do. It's usually seen in what you don't do. In her book "13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do," Amy Morin writes that developing mental strength is a "three-pronged approach." It's about controlling your thoughts, behaviors, and emotions. Following are 13 things that mentally strong people do not do, Morin says.
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Marissa Mayer says the secret of success is working 130 hours a week
You're desperate to be a success, aren't you? What else is there in life? If you can't waft into a fancy restaurant and turn heads with your sense of net worth, who are you? How do you get there, though? Malcolm Gladwell would have you believe that you must spend 10,000 hours working at something before you can be truly world class. Though some think this might be truly nonsense. We now have a new definition from Marissa Mayer.
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The 5 Gifts of Failure
Failure isn't always avoidable. And even when it is, the lessons it can teach us can be more rewarding than the benefits that come with success. To reach these benefits, you need to approach failure with the right frame of mind.
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World's first penis transplant patient to be a father
His surgeons say the South African man is expecting a baby with his girlfriend
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