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David Brooks: Well Planned vs. Summoned

David Brooks nails it again.  The guy is a national treasure. In his latest column, he writes about two different ways in which people plan their lives.  The first he calls the Well-Planned Life, and he references this article by … Continue reading

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Assembling the Team and 2010 Resolutions

Last year I only had two resolutions.  One was fitness.  I think I achieved that.  I trained and ran the Hood to Coast.  I was at my lightest body weight in years.  I can’t say that I’m a gym rat, … Continue reading

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Perception vs. Substance (Talent, Pt. 3; Alpha-Beta, Pt. 2)

Over in the Alphas vs. Betas thread, Robert and King were (were? are? Is Robert still on vacation?) having a discussion on what it means to be “Alpha,” and whether or not the term should even be used among humans. … Continue reading

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Lesson from Kofi Annan: "Don't Crawl" (Tila Part 3?)

(pic from here) I think my conservative side has been coming out with a lot of this Tila talk.  I’m not conservative, of course, but I really do believe that people often get what they ask for.  If there’s a … Continue reading

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Life Without Fear

This is an old concept, even older than FDR who told us that we had nothing to fear but fear itself.  In my last post, I talked about two men who run a billion dollar corporation, one of whom asked, … Continue reading

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Starting a business when young

Embedded video from <a href=”http://www.cnn.com/video” mce_href=”http://www.cnn.com/video”>CNN Video</a> Ephren Taylor, in the CNN video above, talks about starting a business. He started his first business at 12, became a millionaire at 17, and is now the youngest African American CEO of … Continue reading

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Effective, not Popular II

In my previous post, I mentioned the advice of being effective, not popular. In the post, I attached a picture of the sumo wrestler Asashoryu. Check out the video above. Asashoryu is a very good example of effective-not-popular. Sumo is … Continue reading

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Be Effective, Not Popular

(pic from here) See Alpha Asian’s blog post here. Following up on our last Motivation and Strategy post, here is the next installment: Be Effective, Not Popular, advice from Scott Boras. I think this is great advice.  In general, if … Continue reading

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3 Steps to Novel Writing

(pic from here) Continuing our Strategy and Motivation series, Alpha-Asian has written about Overcoming Writer’s Block.  As you all know, Alpha is a successful writer for bodybuilding magazines, as well as a successful self-publisher of fitness books.  As an author, … Continue reading

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Musts and Shoulds

As mentioned in yesterday’s podcast, we’re going to enter a discussion on strategy, motivation, and getting things done.  We’ll probably be posting stuff like this throughout August.  Alpha Asian, and maybe others, will be joining in next week (Edit: See … Continue reading

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