And reach 681,022 readers. — “So you want to be an author now?” my dad said when I told him I’d quit my teaching job to become a writer. He looked skeptical. I felt empathy for his doubts. I doubted my plan as well as he did. It was May 2020, and I had spent…

These resources can help you expand your brain. — “Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life,” Mortimer J. Adler said. I disagree. Books don’t magically make you live the good life. You can read a book a week without changing at all. Reading doesn’t help you per se — it’s reading the right books…

How to use this simple principle for you. — Books give you access to the smartest brains on our planet. And learning from the greatest thinkers and doers is your fast track to health, wealth, and wisdom. Yet, reading per se doesn’t elevate your life. You can read 52 books a year without changing at all. Social climber Dale…

These revolutionary ideas can rewire how you think about the erotic. — When my tantra teacher read out a sentence, I didn’t anticipate how much the words would influence my life. It was last August, and the sentence was one of those where you need to put in some mental effort to get it. I didn’t. My brain was fogged from Vienna’s…

Vital lessons you likely didn’t learn in school. — Learning how to learn is the meta-skill that accelerates everything else you do. Once you understand the fundamentals of learning science, you can save hours every time you learn something new. …

A no-fluff template for living a more intentional life. — I should not compare myself to others, but I do it anyway. I browse social feeds and see acquaintances mastering the most challenging yoga pose or raising millions of venture capital. I then enter thought patterns of no being and doing enough. At the turn of the year, it’s easy…

And equip the next generation to become changemakers. — As a teacher, I witnessed how most children lose their love for learning with every additional year of schooling. Many schools still operate on a purpose from a century ago — mass education to produce a conforming workforce. …

Staying productive, sane, and healthy as a solopreneur. — The first six months of working self-employed felt like a constant struggle between doing too much and barely enough. Nobody sets your priorities or boundaries. You’re maximum self-reliant. I felt guilty when I wasn’t working and stressed when I was. It took me more than a year to benefit from…

This is how I currently write and research my articles. — Tools like Roam and Obsidian can cut your research writing time in half and increase productivity. In essence, these tools are online workspaces for organizing your knowledge. Unlike in linear structured note-taking apps, such as Apple notes or Notion, in Roam and Obsidian, each note represents a node in a…