Sublime

If you want an average, successful life, it doesn’t take much planning. Just stay out of trouble, go to school, and apply for jobs you might like. But if you want something extraordinary, you have two paths: 1) Become the best at one specific thing. 2) Become very good (top 25%) at two or more things.

Maria Popova, who writes the popular site The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings), spends her days reading old books and essays. She’s passionate about finding ideas, beauty, and wisdom in these texts and then connecting them in her own unique conversation with the world.

the brilliant Principles-based psychiatrist William Pettit.

Farnam Street is devoted to helping you develop an understanding of how the world really works, make better decisions, and live a better life. We address such topics as mental models, decision-making, learning, reading, and the art of living.

I said I wanted to be making $100,000 in six months out of this part-time business - $100,000 a year net within six months. I would state that affirmation every day and read the little piece of paper in my wallet and think I was doing all these really cool things, and I thought that was the key to making big progress – to kind of sear that in your

Wallace D. Wattles in his book The Science of Getting Rich, and Napoleon Hill in his book Think and Grow Rich.

People have lots of ideas, but they are mostly bad ones. The way you get good ideas is to do two things: 1) Read two hours a day. 2) Write ten ideas a day. By the end of a year, you will have read for almost one thousand hours and written down 3,600 ideas. One of these ideas will be a home run. How will you know which one? Or two? Or three? Well, b