The Common Denominator of Success is as valuable today as when it was first delivered in 1940 to the National Association of Life Underwriters at their annual convention. While written for life ...

“Inspiration is for amateurs — the rest of us just show up and get to work.” “So far, the best idea I’ve heard about building grit in kids is something called growth mindset,” writes Angela Duckworth.

Hunter S. Thompson’s letter to Hume Logan on finding your purpose and living a meaningful life is one of the most popular posts to ever appear on Farnam Street. One reader found it so valuable he dug ...

Steven Kotler is a bestselling author and the executive director of the Flow Research Collective, where he studies the science of peak performance. Public Release: Oct 27. Members have access now.Join ...

Are you looking for good books to read on Behavioral Economics or Behavioral Psychology? This is a list of my best Behavioral Economics books of all time. If you only want to read a few, check out the ...

This is the story of K.C. Irving. The man who refused to be stopped. When a railway raised his shipping costs, he bought a ...

“Expectation is the grandfather of disappointment. The world can never own a man who wants nothing.” One hundred years after Confucius, came Wu Hsin. His name literally means ‘no-mind.’ And there is ...

The problem with most management, leadership, and business books is that many of them harp on the same self-evident points, overconfident in the usefulness of their prescriptions for would-be ...

One of the first principles we learn as babies is that of cause and effect. Infants learn that pushing an object will cause it to move, crying will cause people to give them attention, and bumping ...

Let’s explore the concept of the Complex Adaptive Systems and see how this model might apply in various walks of life. To illustrate what a complex adaptive system is, and just as importantly, what it ...

Yep. It’s the truth. However, there is another part to that statement: All models are wrong; some are useful. Those words come from the British statistician, George Box. In a groundbreaking 1976 paper ...