From the category archives:

Success

Why Do We Fail?

July 6, 2010

It’s hard to know exactly why people fail, but these are some of the most quoted reasons of failure:
Education
Our view of education is outdated to justify failure. I would agree that a poor education on the home and a mediocre culture might be real reasons behind failure, but not education academically speaking (frequently the most [...]

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Over-Dreaming

March 8, 2010

The other day I read this quote by Will Smith:
Being realistic is the fastest way to mediocrity.
Sorry Will, but I disagree.
Realism has bad press, but it’s the best mindset to get things done.
We love to repeat over and over about how you need to stick to your dreams, about how you can accomplish anything you [...]

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How To Build a Community Of Drones

February 15, 2010

These are the quick and easy steps to build a community of drones:

Make friends.
Promote them so they will promote you.
Screw them over/ ignore them/ use them/drop them while becoming friends with their friends.
Repeat as needed.

In no time, you’ll be praised for your community building skills thanks to those drone followers that are too blind to [...]

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The Success Thing

February 1, 2010

Jonny Gibaud from The Life Thing is releasing today The Success Ebook.
He compiled 30 young and promising bloggers’ definition of success and their way to achieve it, and created a very inspiring and quick to read ebook that will make you work hard to reach your success, whatever it means to you.
Download the free ebook [...]

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The Media Attention Whores

November 19, 2009

There are two ways to do things:
You can talk about the things you’re going to do, and then do them.
Or you can just do them.
Sadly, people seem to value more the former way of action.
The one that makes a big fuss about it.
The one that needs selfish justification.
The one that’s fake.
The problem is we encourage [...]

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Ignore Reality

November 11, 2009

Our culture is seeing an explosion of social studies in the work environment, mainly focused on our irrationality and incapability to see the best logical response. We have been victims of our mind’s flaws since the beginning of time, but we are now fascinated to point out to everyone just how “crazy” we are.
Studies prove [...]

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The Contradiction

October 23, 2009

We are seeing one of the biggest contradictions in history happen before our young eyes:
Pharmaceutical companies are improving the quality of our daily lives life.
Breakthroughs in medicine are letting us survive more accidents and diseases than ever.
Never before we have taken care of our health and fitness, worrying about what we eat, how we sleep [...]

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