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  <title>The $100 Startup: How to Build a Real Business with Almost No Money</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[How to start a real business with $100 or less. The philosophy behind the bestselling book, the core principles, common myths, and how to take the first step.]]></description>
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  <title>Time Anxiety: What It Is, Why It&apos;s Hard, and What Helps</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Time anxiety is the persistent worry that you're not using time right. What it is, how it differs from FOMO, why it hits harder for neurodivergent people, and what actually helps.]]></description>
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  <title>Definition of Insanity: Why Doing Things Differently Isn&apos;t Enough</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The definition of insanity quote is usually attributed to Einstein—but he didn't say it. Here's where it actually came from, and why just doing things differently isn't enough.]]></description>
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  <title>Regret is an Unreliable Emotion</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[I have long believed that thinking about regret is a powerful motivator for action.]]></description>
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  <title>36 Ways to Live Differently</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[To live better means that you’ll live differently—somehow, you’ll make some kind of change. Your life will be different tomorrow than it is today.]]></description>
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  <title>Change Your Future to Rewrite the Past</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[“People think that only the future can be changed, but in fact, the future is continually changing the past. The past can and does change.]]></description>
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  <title>NeuroDiversion</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[NeuroDiversion is a home for neurodivergent humans, an annual gathering in Austin, and a year-round source of resources for living and working differently.]]></description>
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  <title>Out Now: My Book, Time Anxiety ⏳</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Friends and readers, I’m thrilled to announce my new book: “Time Anxiety: The Illusion of Urgency and a Better Way to Live” is out now.]]></description>
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  <title>Different Is Better: Your Personal Invitation to NeuroDiversion 25</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Yes, you are invited! Get tickets to NeuroDiversion 25 (March 27-29, 2025) 🎟️ Dear friends and readers, NeuroDiversion is coming up in just one month!]]></description>
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  <title>Time Anxiety and Neurodivergence: How ADHD Shapes Our Relationship with Time</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Why time anxiety hits differently for ADHD and other neurodivergent minds, and what helps. Time blindness, executive function, and the limits of standard productivity advice.]]></description>
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  <title>The View from Prcanj, Montenegro</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[I think a lot about distant places, but to be honest, I&#8217;ve never really given much thought to the small country called Montenegro. I&#8217;m not sure why&#8211; after all, it is the world&#8217;]]></description>
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  <title>New Posts on Mental Health and Purposeful Productivity</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Greetings! Depending on how we’re connected, you may or may not have heard much from me lately.]]></description>
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  <title>Announcing: A Year of Mental Health 💚</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Happy New Year! Big announcement time: For all of 2024, I’ll be writing three times a week on a new newsletter hosted by Substack.]]></description>
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  <title>2023 Annual Review: Back in Action, Big Changes for Next Year</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[*Big news: I’m making some changes! Starting January 1, a new yearlong project will take the place of the weekly newsletter.]]></description>
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  <title>Annual Review Coming Up! (2023 Edition)</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[This week I’m heading off-the-grid for the 2023 Annual Review trip. It’s a tradition I’ve held mostly without fail every year since way back in 2006.]]></description>
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  <title>Choose a Life Purpose (Any Purpose Will Do)</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The lesson of this post can be condensed into ten words: having a life purpose is better than not having one.]]></description>
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  <title>The Real Risk Is That You Don’t Change At All</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Last week I posted a message on Facebook and LinkedIn about how working for yourself is less risky than working a regular job.]]></description>
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  <title>How to Pay Attention</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Paying attention is harder than it looks. Standard advice—mindfulness, reducing distractions—helps sometimes. Here's what to do when it doesn't.]]></description>
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  <title>How Hedonic Adaptation Can Raise Your Level of Happiness</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed that some people are unhappy all the time? No matter what, they find a reason to be negative.]]></description>
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  <title>Going Back to a Strange, Familiar Place</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Once in a while, you walk into a place and experience an odd sensation. What is this feeling?]]></description>
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  <title>Gonzo Capitalism</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Gonzo capitalism is the economy where people are getting paid for things that didn't exist five years ago, on platforms that didn't exist five years ago, on terms nobody's parents would recognize as a job. An entry point to the topic and the book.]]></description>
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  <title>Lessons Learned from Writing Gonzo Capitalism</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Two months ago I published my first book in three years, the longest gap I’ve had since I began this career.]]></description>
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  <title>The 5-Minute To-Do List</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[A quick idea for you today: keep an alternate to-do list that consists entirely of things that can be done in 5 minutes or less.]]></description>
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  <title>How to Know What to Do Next</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[I once wrote a post titled “Being able to ask ‘what’s next?’ is a sign you are happy in your work.” My point was that when you’re doing good work, you enjoy]]></description>
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  <title>Playing It Safe Is Dangerous</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Being too cautious can lead to the exact opposite of the outcome that you’re hoping for. Sometimes, the safest choice you can make is the aggressive one.]]></description>
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  <title>Don’t Just Question Authority, Question Yourself</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Many rules exist for the sole purpose of upholding the rule-makers’ power. By asking “Who makes these rules?” or, even better, “Who benefits from these]]></description>
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  <title>Helpful Things to Learn About</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[When I started making a list of things that might be helpful to know about, I was going to call it “Some Things You Should Know,” with the emphasis on]]></description>
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  <title>The Case for the $100 Business</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m working on this concept for a longer project, but for now, here&#8217;s the basic principle: Just as you don&#8217;t need someone else&#8217;s permission to be happy , you also don&#8217;t n]]></description>
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  <title>A Collection of Productivity Advice That Is Actually Useful</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The internet is filled with productivity advice. From YouTube videos to social media threads, you see it all the time: Follow these 37 tips to write every]]></description>
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  <title>The Great Mattress Wealth Redistribution Plan</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[It’s time for a new experiment! Sleep for free on a fancy mattress for three months, then get 100% of your money back.]]></description>
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  <title>Scholarships for Real Life: The WDS Foundation</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Two years ago at WDS we gave everyone $100 and sent them off with a charge to do something fun and meaningful. &nbsp; Throughout the next year we heard a lot of great stories about what happened with ]]></description>
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  <title>The Insane World of Underground Bike Messenger Racing</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[File under: I had no idea this was a thing. This mini-doc on the world of “underground bike messenger racing&#8221; might seem a little slow in the beginning, but if you stick with it you&#8217;ll be ]]></description>
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  <title>Where Should I Go on Book Tour?</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Later this fall I’ll be visiting at least 40 cities to meet readers and talk about my new book, The Happiness of Pursuit . I’m super excited about this tour. We’re hitting a bunch of major markets whe]]></description>
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  <title>On the Road: First Two Weeks of Book Tour</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[You did this for the first time long ago. You wrote a book and went out to talk about it. It was new and fresh and exciting.]]></description>
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  <title>How Much Money Is Enough?: A Conversation with Gretchen Rubin</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Research shows that money can buy happiness sometimes —but the amount of money isn’t one-size-fits-all. J.D. Roth talked to Gretchen Rubin about how to find the number that works for you. *** J.D.: On]]></description>
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  <title>Get the Newsletter</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Get the Newsletter Sign up here to get the best newsletter in the world. You&#8217;ll also receive updates twice a week (no more!)—and maybe even a free cupcake. (You never know.) Whoo hoo! You are a ]]></description>
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  <title>The Top 7 Interviews from Good Life Project</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Online interviews are a dime a dozen&#8230; except when they’re done amazingly well. Jonathan Fields decided to rise to the challenge of producing thoughtful, in-depth features on interesting people. ]]></description>
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  <title>Inspiration</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Inspiration Book List | Quotes | Other World Changers | Tools (Looking for the unremarkably average article? It&#8217;s here) Check out my book list for some great reading on travel, personal developm]]></description>
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  <title>If You Want Average Results, Follow the Rules of Average</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[In a previous post I wrote — The law of average states that the operating system of life is designed to work for as many people as possible.]]></description>
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  <title>Before Beginning, Prepare Carefully</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[I’m writing these notes on a SkyWest commuter flight to Santa Rosa, California. It’s a small plane en route to a small airport.]]></description>
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  <title>The New Rules of Money</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Before we had the title GONZO CAPITALISM, we thought about calling my new book The New Rules of Money.]]></description>
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  <title>The Big Picture and the Small Details</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[In the process of making something you hope to share with people, two contradictory messages compete for our attention.]]></description>
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  <title>Rethinking The Marshmallow Experiment</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[You might have heard of the famous “marshmallow experiment,” where social psychologists attempted to measure the long-term effects of practicing deferred]]></description>
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  <title>Feeling Embarrassed Is Part of Traveling</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Years ago during a visit to Singapore, I walked straight into a closed glass door while attempting to exit a coffee shop.]]></description>
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  <title>A Love Letter to Trump Supporters ❤️</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[I’d like to speak to any of my readers who have supported the current U.S. president in the past, or who are planning to do so again this year. Believe it or not, I’ve been trying to understand where ]]></description>
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  <title>When In Doubt, Change Everything</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[I’ve written before about how important it is to change your mind. The ability to consider new information and update your beliefs is hugely underrated.]]></description>
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  <title>How Not to Book a Plane Ticket</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[AKA a case study in indecisiveness — Back in the day, I used to write a lot of posts on how to book plane tickets. Guess what? Here is how NOT to do it.]]></description>
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  <title>Readers: What Would You Like to Know About?</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[This week I’ll be traveling to Europe, though it’s been more of a challenge than usual to get there.]]></description>
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  <title>Unusual Things You’re Allowed to Do</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Did you know you can start your own holiday? Not just a made-up holiday for yourself, but one that may eventually get noticed and talked about by others.]]></description>
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  <title>Follow Your Boring Dreams</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Everywhere you go, you encounter messages about the importance of dreaming big. As a kid, you’re told you can become anyone you wanted.]]></description>
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  <title>Travel Hacking Resources</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[A guide to earning miles and points, finding cheap fares, and traveling the world for less. Includes credit card strategies, round-the-world airfare, and budget travel tips.]]></description>
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  <title>Coming April 7, 2020 – THE MONEY TREE: Finding the Fortune in Your Own Backyard</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Greetings, friends and readers! Big news today: I wrote a new book! It&#8217;s called THE MONEY TREE, and it comes out April 7th. 💰🌳⁠ I&#8217;m very excited to share this sneak peek of my first *ful]]></description>
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  <title>279 Days To Overnight Success</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Friends and readers, here is my second manifesto, 279 Days to Overnight Success. It tells the story of this web site, but more importantly, it offers 11,000]]></description>
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  <title>If You’re Not Getting Better, You’re Getting Worse</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Consider this concept: if you’re not getting better at something, you’re getting worse at it.]]></description>
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  <title>Favorite Airport Tricks</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[I understand why some people don’t like airports. Really, I do. But speaking for myself, I love them.]]></description>
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  <title>Surprising New Research Reveals Gap Between Inaction, Lack of Results</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Studies show that many office workers would benefit from standing up at their desk, walking outside, and never returning.]]></description>
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  <title>When to Be Unremarkably Average</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[In my early days of blogging, I wrote a post that had a good amount of impact. It was called How to Be Unremarkably Average, and it featured a list of]]></description>
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  <title>Beyond Perfect</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[I recently watched a documentary on the making of Aja, the seminal work by Steely Dan.]]></description>
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  <title>Side Hustle School</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Side Hustle School is a daily podcast about real people earning real money on the side of their day jobs. 3,400+ episodes, every one a different story, from saddles for pet chickens to a side hustle that hires 13 people.]]></description>
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  <title>The Life You Want and the Life You’re Supposed to Lead</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[As I wrote last week (How to Practice Disappointing People), there’s a built-in conflict between pleasing other people and pleasing yourself.]]></description>
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  <title>How to Practice Disappointing People</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[It starts with this: Generally, people like you to fit the mental model they have for you. Mental models make life easier for everyone.]]></description>
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  <title>The Mouse in the Cage</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[A laboratory mouse who lives in a cage can be expected to behave in fairly predictable ways. In short, the mouse wants food.]]></description>
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  <title>How Honest People Learn to Lie</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Want to play a game? It’s an easy one. All you need to do is look at these three lines and identify the longest: A ———————— B —————————————————— C ————— The]]></description>
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  <title>9 Simple Ways to Improve Your Life Right Now</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[When I’m feeling sad, I like to do a few things. The first thing I do is nothing—meaning that I don’t believe you should always try to “fix” the state of]]></description>
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  <title>How to Ask Magical Questions</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[If you check into a Marriott hotel as a Platinum or higher member, you’re supposed to be given a nice room.]]></description>
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  <title>The Ultimate Travel Superpower</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[I used to write a lot about travel hacking, the creative use of frequent flyer miles and points to see the world.]]></description>
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  <title>Introducing Gonzo Capitalism</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Friends and readers, I’m happy to announce my first book in three years, GONZO CAPITALISM: How to Make Money in an Economy That Hates You.]]></description>
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  <title>Congratulations On Your New Life</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Long ago, perhaps on my first book tour or at some other early event, I took a risk in a public conversation.]]></description>
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  <title>What If You Just Started Walking?</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[What if you wanted to walk across the United States, or perhaps some other large country—how would you do it?]]></description>
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  <title>To Live Your Best Life, Love Yourself More</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Happy Valentine’s Day to you. Have you ever stopped to think about what it really means to love yourself?]]></description>
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  <title>An Instruction Manual for Yourself</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[An instruction manual is a written guide that provides step-by-step instructions on how to use, operate, or achieve something.]]></description>
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  <title>Why Is It Hard to Be Different?</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[On a surface level, being different is valued and prized. Many popular TV series, from Wednesday to Stranger Things, demonstrate the benefits and “cool]]></description>
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  <title>Unlock the Power of Out-and-Back Living</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[There are two ways to plan an outdoor run: in a loop, or out-and-back. You could also call these methods by their practical names: quit early or keep going]]></description>
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  <title>The Unexpected Benefits of Travel</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[When I think of “how travel changed me,” most of what comes to mind is fairly typical.]]></description>
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  <title>The Importance of Controlling Your Time</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[We often hear statements like “time is money,” or “time is your most precious resource.” How, though, does this translate into action?]]></description>
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  <title>This Year, Give Up on Your Dreams</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[New year, new you: time to set some intentions and fail to achieve them, then feel guilty about it. You know the drill, right?]]></description>
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  <title>Top AONC Posts of 2022</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[As the year draws to a close, I thought I’d look back at the most popular posts from this blog, The Art of Non-Conformity.]]></description>
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  <description><![CDATA[I recently filled out a medical form where I was required to answer this question: “Do you have any special powers that most people don’t possess?” This]]></description>
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  <description><![CDATA[I recently filled out a medical form where I was required to answer this question: “Do you have any special powers that most people don’t possess?” This]]></description>
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  <title>The Future of the World Domination Summit</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Way back in 2011, 400 adventurers gathered in Portland, Oregon to consider an important question, &#8220;How do we live a remarkable life in a conventional world?&#8221;. Embracing the core values of ]]></description>
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  <title>Next Stop, Annual Review</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[This week I’m heading off-the-grid for the 2022 Annual Review trip. It’s a tradition I’ve held mostly without fail every year since 2006.]]></description>
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  <title>The Energy Story You Tell Yourself</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Traveling in Atlanta last week, I hurt my back when I went to lift something. I could tell that it wasn’t serious and would get better in a couple of days.]]></description>
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  <title>Language Matters: Lessons in Editing from Mr. Rogers</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[I went to see the Mr. Rogers movie last week (“ Won’t You Be My Neighbor ”) and found it as heartwarming and uplifting as I expected. If you’re able to see it in a theatre, don’t hesitate. At the scre]]></description>
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  <title>Travel Anxiety Is Life Anxiety: A Story in Four Parts</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[1. A Walk in Terminal 5 What was the weather like? It didn’t matter. What was I going for? Irrelevant.]]></description>
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  <title>Waiting for Results</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[It’s a strange feeling to be in the waiting room. You’re awaiting news of some kind: an outcome, a set of results, some form of news.]]></description>
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  <title>Notes on Wilderness Survival from the Show ALONE</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[I recently watched the eighth season of Alone, a reality TV show where contestants are sent into the woods to live on their own for months at a time.]]></description>
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  <title>Effortful Before Effortless (and 8 Other Rules for Tranquility)</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Laura Vanderkam is probably tired of being introduced by her friends and colleagues as “one of the most productive people I know,” but I think it comes with]]></description>
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  <title>Getting Off Adderall</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[I took a version of the prescription drug Adderall almost every day for more than five years.]]></description>
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  <title>What Does Capitalism Mean to You?</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[👉🏼 Link: Modern Capitalism Survey How do you feel about capitalism? Positively? Negatively? Something else?]]></description>
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  <title>New Travel Hacking Offers: Earn 100,000 Hilton Honors Points &amp; More</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Greetings from paradise, also known as Australia . I started writing this post from one of my favorite places in the world: the balcony of my room at Park Hyatt Sydney ( check out this photo of the su]]></description>
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  <title>Don’t Cheat Yourself: A Lesson in Exercise and Life</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[In search of a small change from my running routine, I went to spin class over the weekend. If you’ve never been, give it a try. It’s tough!]]></description>
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  <title>What It Feels Like to Stop Traveling</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The other day Joel Runyon asked me if I still have my duplicate passport. Not only did I let that lapse, I told him, but these days I often go two months or]]></description>
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  <title>Join a Supportive Community and Create a New Source of Income</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Join the Side Hustle Society and Create a New Source of Income Link: Side Hustle Society Short version: my new training program (the first I’ve made in 3]]></description>
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  <title>The Man Who Worked 24 Hours a Day for a Year</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Tehching Hsieh is the most remarkable performance artist you’ve never heard of. Unlike more famous peers such as Marina Abramović, whose The Artist Is]]></description>
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  <title>3 Good Reasons to Change Your Mind</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[You’ve heard the inspirational sayings about getting started: The perfect time and opportunity never comes. Start now.]]></description>
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  <title>Shipwrecked in the Arctic: A Lesson in Exposure Therapy</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The Auckland Islands are not advertised as an ideal honeymoon location. Consisting of an uninhabited archipelago with arctic tundra and barren conditions,]]></description>
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  <description><![CDATA[When I was sixteen, I went to work as a telemarketer for a company that sold photo sessions. The job lasted two days.]]></description>
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  <title>Here Lies the Man Who Played It Safe</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for coming today. We’re here to mourn our friend, the Man Who Played It Safe His Whole Life.]]></description>
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  <title>“I Wish I’d Made That Change Later” -said no one</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Here’s something to think about. It doesn’t require you to spend money or join anything. It’s just a thought exercise.]]></description>
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  <title>The Specialist, the Generalist, and the Non-Conformist</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[This is the story of three people: Nick, Sara, and Taylor. Each faced the common challenge of deciding what to focus on for their life and work.]]></description>
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