Avoiding The Golden Mean
Hi , Straight into it this week. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Where am I along the spectrum? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These last three months, for me, can be defined by one word: Overwhelm. For reasons both outside of and within my control, I took on far too much, tried to do too many different things, got

The Logical Thinking Process, Part One: Five Simple Pieces
What if there was a step by step way to solving any problem? A simple, straight-forward path to getting everything you ever wanted? To avoiding pitfalls and obstacles? To maximizing your potential and living your best life? Well…there is. It’s called the Logical Thinking Process. It’s got

Diagnosing The Gap
This post originally appeared on the “Better Questions” email list. If you’d like to get one email like this a week, please sign up at BetterQuestionsEmail.com. Thanks! —- Hi , Last week, we covered the Goal Tree – a tool designed to help us explicitly define what we want. But

The Real Place
Interested in a simple yet massively transformational practice you can immediately apply to your own life? Then this week’s email is for you. 🙂 —- Where can I Gemba Walk in my own life? —- If you’re at all like me (and you probably are, since you’re here)

Better Angels
This post was originally an email sent to theBetter Questions Email List [http://betterquestionsemail.com/].For more like it,please sign up – it’s free. [http://betterquestionsemail.com/] This post is about the election, but it is NOT about politics. I would really, really appreciate it if you would give

Rhinoceros
——- Where is it written? ——- I recently came face to face with irrationality. I was attacked online… Called terrible things… Directly threatened. Why? I pointed out an inaccuracy. My crime was naively wandering into the world of online conspiracies, believing I could set things right with “better information.” Here’

Normalbaum
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Is This Legible? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You breathe in. Your hand rests on the door handle. Your first day. I can do this, you think. You push the door open and stride into the room. You make your way to your desk, shoulders back, conscious of your posture, your smile, keeping

All Woods Must Fail
O! Wanderers in the shadowed land Despair not! For though dark they stand, All woods there be must end at last, And see the open sun go past: The setting sun, the rising sun, The day’s end, or the day begun. For east or west all woods must fail.

One In a Million
— What’s Worse Than Death? — Right here, at the beginning of our penultimate COVID-19 email… I’d like to take a moment to mourn. It’s very possible you haven’t taken a moment to let it all settle in. What we’ve lost. For us, it was Dolly, the

Monty Hall
—— Should I switch, or stay? —– Let’s begin our review all the way back at the beginning, with our very first email about risk… Bad Priors. [https://nolessthan.acemlna.com/lt.php?notrack=1¬rack=1&s=bad97c655476f96a390a72c05a742011&i=34A39A2A148] Everyone comes to situations of risk with
