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You're Worth Betting On Dreams aren’t made on a chess board but at a poker table. As Annie Duke explains in Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts, understanding the difference between the two games is critical to knowing what strategies to pursue. “Chess contains no hidden information and very little luck. The pieces are all there for both players to see.” On the other hand, poker “is a game of incomplete information. It is a game of decision-making...

30 Lessons From 30 Years You don’t necessarily get wiser with age, but in honor of my 30th birthday, here are 30 lessons I’ve learned along the way. On God 1. When you’re struggling to hear God, focus on trying to see Him. 2. God is more like a VC than a bank, both in the relationship and in His return expectation. 3. You can do anything in this world, as you’re only bound by the laws of physics. And even when you reach that point, you’re only bound by the will of God. 4. All saints won’t be...

When They Call You a Cheater Isn’t it funny how we only call people “cheaters” after they win? We started hearing cries of banning the “tush push” after the Eagles had a 93% success rate in 2022. The NFL abolished the “tuck rule” after Tom Brady led the Patriots to a Super Bowl in the 2001-2002 season, following the infamous call in the Divisional Round against the Raiders. Drake only sued Kendrick Lamar after “Not Like Us” became the song of the summer. Everything is fair until the wrong...

Why So Serious? What is everything you would need to do, if your goal was to have as successful of a career as possible (however you define success)? Here's what my list initially looked like: Work really hard Find mentors and the right tribe Take a courageous step or two Manage my time efficiently Seek the right opportunities Always be learning Early mornings (cold plunge? TBD) It's not too far off from the list that I've used throughout my life. And I suspect yours is similar. But I was...

Are You Willing to Dream Again? If this fashion icon had quit dreaming when she turned 70, none of us would have known her name. For 70 years, this woman had been dreaming her whole life. At first, she dreamed out of necessity. Growing up in an orphanage after watching her mom die of tuberculosis, there was little inspiration around her that invigorated her imagination. But refusing to die in the poverty that surrounded her, she absorbed whatever knowledge she could find. A few romance novels...

What Are You Waiting on to Chase Your Dreams? David Senra, creator of Founders podcast, believes we’re living in an “epidemic” of people who don’t believe in themselves. We’ve never been more educated. It’s never been easier to access information or to make new contacts. What’s holding us back? Probably the same thing holding some of us back in dating. Logan Ury, Director of Relationship Science at Hinge and author of How to Not Die Alone, argues there’s three common dating archetypes that...

How to Get More of What Matters Most in 2025 Are we really measuring what matters most at the end of each year? I’m a self-improvement junkie, so I’ve read as many “Yearly Reviews” and “How to Make 2025 the Best Year of Life” posts as I can get my hands on. But they’re often missing the essence of why we’re making the changes in the first place. We are skipping James Clear’s “cardinal rule of behavior change” identified in his New York Times Bestseller Atomic Habits: “Make it satisfying.” Dr....

Lucky Penny If it weren’t for this one event, we probably never would have heard of J.C. Penney. After losing his life savings from his first venture because he refused to take a bribe, Penney found work at a clothing and dry goods store. The owners were so impressed with Penney that they allowed Penney to join them as a partner in the business. Penney’s first task was to open the next branch of the Golden Rule store in Kemmerer, Wyoming, a town with a population of 900 people. Joining Penney...

Can You Solve This Riddle? Most dreams fail not because of a lack of talent or drive, but because the dreamer can’t answer this one little riddle: “What are you doing?” It seems innocuous, but it’s anything but. It’s unrelenting. And an incorrect answer can cause the bravest of us to stumble. Thankfully, we can learn from inspirational leaders like Jesse Cole. You may know Jesse better as the guy who is always wearing a yellow tuxedo and owns the Savannah Bananas. After finishing another...

Defying Gravity Did you know that Stephen Schwartz, composer and lyricist of the hit musical Wicked, didn’t think the 1995 novel, Wicked: The Life and Times of The Wicked Witch of the West, could effectively be made into a movie? Well, that’s at least what he told the president of Universal Pictures when he had to convince Universal to turn it into a musical first. Universal owned the rights to turn the book into a movie and a team of writers were already working on the second version of the...