The Art of the Good Life: 52 Surprising Shortcuts to Happiness, Wealth, and Success by Rolf Dobelli Summary of the Summary: The world is complicated beyond our comprehension. In order to lead a good life, we need a mental toolkit to protect against cognitive errors based on emotions, biases and misinterpretation. Takeaway:  These mental tools...

If you’re part of the human race, there’s a high chance that stress is a regular fixture in your life. It's that feeling of pressured, pressed, and always short on time. We usually respond to this by adding something: a drink, a Netflix binge, or a night out. We try to unwind or forget by doing something that feels good. Sometimes our unwinding...

If Stocism began today, it would be classified in the "no-BS" school of thought alongside the likes of Mark Manson and Rolf Dobelli who prefer to slap you in the face with the unblinking truth rather than coddle you until you see the light. That's what I love about Stoicism—it's straight-forward and applicable. Stoicism's central tenet is that...

Courage doesn’t exist without vulnerability. Brené Brown described it best when she asked the audience in her Netflix special The Call to Courage to think of a single instance of heroism where the hero wasn’t placed in a situation of extreme vulnerability. It’s always someone risking their life, risking looking like a fool, risking their worldly...

Commitment. It’s a word that either invokes warm feelings of security or a pang of dread to the very core. It’s a word I’ve consistently run from because it seemed scary and I thought I wasn’t good at it. I am definitely subpar in this area in certain parts of my life, but when I look at my professional life I see how deep commitment has produced...

I’ve made a few decisions over the past couple of months that have thrown my life into a state of uncertainty. I made them willingly and thoughtfully, but thrown I am regardless. I guess that’s all life is, really: uncertain situation after uncertain situation. We never know what tomorrow brings, or even the next minute. There have been countless...

Everything in life has a certain push and pull, a positive and negative. So it is with ambition and acceptance.  I use the word ambition here to address all types of personal development; it’s that constant forward motion of “bettering ourselves.” Acceptance, then, would be a state of stillness; the act of sitting with who you are and where...