Things we can do now like space travel, lightbulbs, and invisibility cloaks (yes, you heard me right. A team at Duke figured it out) were all once thought to be impossible. 

It turns out that none of these were impossible problems, we were just in the process of figuring out...

Thinking about all the steps you might need to take in the journey to achieve your biggest goals can be intimidating — even paralyzing to the point where you never start. 

Perhaps you already know this from experience. 

In addition potentially preventing you from ever starting, the other issue...

On one of Tom Bilyeu’s Impact Theory podcasts, Neil deGrasse Tyson talks about witnessing a mother and her 3 or 4-year-old kid walking through central park on a rainy day.

There was a big juicy and muddy puddle right in front of the kid and Tyson remembered thinking to himself: “please...

“When you’re onto something great, it won’t feel like revolution. It’ll feel like uncommon sense.” — Derek Sivers in Anything You WantAn uncommonly held idea isn’t necessarily a bad idea. 

Seat belts were uncommon. 

Sanitizing hands before a surgical procedure was uncommon. 

Even the written word...

You create value whenever you deliver something useful or important. 

The amount of value you create is the product of 1) how effective your solution is and 2) how important the problem that you’re solving is. 

When you deliver effective solutions, you are generating value. 

When you solve...

At multiple points in your life, you are going to feel overwhelmed: 
Sometimes it will be work related, other times it will have to do with your personal affairs. 

In either case, it’s important to understand that you cannot be effective in any sense of the word if you...

Stress is debilitating…at least that’s what pop culture would have you believe. 

Three powerful studies on the topic of stress demonstrated that 1) stress doesn’t have to be debilitating and 2) when you frame stress as something that can enhance performance you end up responding better mentally and physically...

Leverage is the maximization of something’s value by utilizing it to solve more problems.

You’ve found leverage whenever you look at something that exists and realize “I can use that to make something better”

When you team up with others, you leverage each others’ capabilities to achieve something that no party...

There 4 pillars that make doing great work and moving mountains possible: 

The first pillar is a great idea — a vision of the future that would genuinely make things better. 

The second pillar is a good team that shares your vision, because it is only in through team...

A limiting factor is any aspect of an operation that fundamentally limits its ability to sustainably grow. 

For example, if you’re managing the progress of all of your projects in your head, your limiting factor is your memory which probably isn’t perfect if you’re like most people. 

If you’re...