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The two skills are 1. Enjoying Time Alone and 2. Processing My Own Thoughts. Good luck and enjoy! Every Monday and Wednesday, I publish a bite-sized episode on fulfillment, living by design, working hard, career growth, and mental models. These episodes are less than 10 minutes so you can fit them in your daily routine, and they come from some of the wisest, most accomplished people throughout history. Subscribe to the show today wherever you get your podcasts. For more Bite-Sized...

Straight from How To Win Friends & Influence People, we have ways to handle people in ways that will make them like you and build relationships. These two techniques have been proven in scientific studies, they've been written about countless times, and they make sense. That's the big 3. Every Monday and Wednesday, I publish a bite-sized episode on fulfillment, living by design, working hard, career growth, and mental models. These episodes are less than 10 minutes so you can fit them in...

This is the 5th and final episode with Kyle Hagge, episode 58 of this podcast, and 8 of the 24-episode series in 2022. You should write down your thoughts and theories, in a private journal, in a public blog, just somewhere. It forces you to reinforce your thoughts and refine your ideas. That's a part of why I started this podcast two years ago! This week has been fantastic, and such a great conversation for me to learn from and be able to listen back through with Kyle. Monday, we talked...

Range by David Epstein is a book about careers, re-framing how we get to success. Often, our careers don’t look like past generations. We don’t pick a career at 18, get hired as a junior employee, and work there for 47 years before we retire. That’s extremely rare. Instead, we move through many roles and positions in our career, accumulating skills and data points throughout. We learn what we like and don’t like, what we’re good at and what we hate. We get to be beginners in a lot of places,...

Today talks about The fresh start effect where your birthday, a new year, anything that's a new situation actually is more effective at changing habits than just a random Tuesday in June. With New Years’ just in the rear-view, how are you doing with your goals? How are you doing with your resolutions? Use this episode as a reminder and a boost for your resolutions to be able to jump-start the new year and make it as good as you can make it. This week on Bite-Sized Philosophy is an interview...

Today’s episode talks primarily about a “personal board room” or a “Challenge Network” and I want to explain some terms before we jump in. If you’re familiar with the idea, feel free to jump forward in this episode 90 seconds and jump straight to the intro and the content from Kyle. But otherwise, here’s a quick intro.  A challenge network is a group of people who can provide feedback and act as a sounding board for you in your career. Adam Grant famously uses his challenge network to edit...

Today’s episode about finding shared experiences as a way to build your own community comes from Kyle Hagge, the lead community manager at Morning Brew. He helped start the Morning Brew Accelerator (MB/A) program that I’ll be participating in starting later this month. Find Kyle on Twitter or LinkedIn This week on Bite-Sized Philosophy is an interview series with Kyle Hagge. Kyle has been a podcast producer, non-profit co-founder, and now is the lead community manager at Morning Brew. He is...

Empathy is the way to break the toxicity of social media. Instead of fighting, it’s our call to be peaceful, loving, and kind to those around us. Our lives depend on it. Every Monday and Wednesday, I publish a bite-sized episode on fulfillment, living by design, working hard, career growth, and mental models. These episodes are less than 10 minutes so you can fit them in your daily routine, and they come from some of the wisest, most accomplished people throughout history. Subscribe to the...

The Measure of Intelligence is the Ability to Change - Albert Einstein A huge part of being able to change is understanding wide and ranging perspectives on topics you care about. Here are some of my favorite writers that challenge my ways of thinking and help me to change: Think Again - Adam Grant (book) Be Antiracist - Ibram X Kendi (podcast) Essays by Paul Graham (blog) Books by Malcolm Gladwell (books) Life Advice that Doesn’t Suck - Mark Manson (blog) News and analysis -...

Welcome back! This is the first of a 24-episode contract beginning in 2022. I've already recorded an interview with Kyle Hagge and have a couple more scheduled. Between those and some solo episodes, there's a lot of content that I'm very excited about that's coming. This podcast is built around the idea of Live By Design. This is a concept that says you have responsibility and ownership of your life. That your actions have consequences and you can make your own decisions with agency. To go...

50 Episodes. Wow. This was my goal when I started this show nearly two years ago, and we're there. We did it. I said at 50 episodes I could re-evaluate if Bite-Sized Philosophy was a project I wanted to continue, and for the moment, it still is. I'm planning to renew the show for 24 more episodes in 2022 and then will check in again at episode 74. This is the past-year review. The New Year is upon us, and that means there will be all sorts of resolutions. Promises to ourselves that we don’t...

This is going to be part 1 of a two-part series to preparing for 2022. What can you do this week to prepare yourself for the year ahead and set yourself up to have some wins next year that you didn’t get this year? Today we’ll be talking about values and Wednesday will be about a Year in Review. “The more clear I am about what my goals are, the more easily I can say no.” - Samin Nosrat But if everything is a priority, nothing is. Without knowing what’s the most important thing, we can’t...

For a lot of people, the holiday season is wonderful. But just because it’s the most wonderful time of the year doesn’t make it easy. There are distant relatives in town, traveling to see loved ones, and more this Christmas and New Years. It can be hard to deal with, especially with COVID going on still. But no matter what’s going on, you have the power to choose how you respond. As Epictetus says: The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say...

We’re going to make mistakes every single day. In everything we try, we won’t be perfect. You won’t, I won’t, no one will. So make mistakes on purpose, with intention. Just make sure they are your mistakes. Dream big, fly high, shoot for the stars. And then document the mistakes you’ve made, keep track of what works and what doesn’t, and journal, meditate, and grow from your mistakes. Not everything will be a mistake, and the more you try, the more you’ll succeed. Every Monday and...

Negativity doesn’t impress me. When people can pick an argument apart, it’s not impressive to me. The world defaults to chaos and ruin. Being able to drag someone else’s action down is just the default, it’s easy to do. What’s hard to do is something good. It’s hard to commit to being a positive force and do something positive, knowing how many people are waiting to pick it apart and drag you for it. This episode has 12 small actions you can do in the next month to be a positive force for...

"Desire’s a contract you make to be unhappy until you get what you want. You become disturbed because you want something. Then you work really hard to get it and are miserable in the meantime. Finally, when you get it, you revert to the state you were in before you had it. It’s not like you achieve some peak level of bliss that you stay on forever. No single thing will make you happy forever" - Naval Ravikant Appreciate your accomplishments and rest on your laurels for a few minutes. It's...

Here's the full post from Morning Brew co-founder Alex Lieberman There is no substitute for sustained, consistent quality. Showing up regularly for 2 years and producing good, relevant, unique content is the best way to grow a podcast. We're just 44 episodes into this thing, are you ready for the next 246 episodes to see where this takes us? Every Monday and Wednesday, I publish a bite-sized episode on fulfillment, living by design, working hard, career growth, and mental models. These...

Have No Fear of Perfection, You'll never reach it. - Salvador Dali.  Salvador Dali was perhaps one of the most well-known artists of the 20th century, painting the masterpiece The Persistence of Memory (that's the one with the melting clocks) and other surrealist works. Perfection isn't something that we need to fear, because it's unattainable. Perhaps even more relevant, imperfection isn't something to fear, because it's inevitable. If we can't avoid it, why fear it? Every Monday and...

Tough episode for me today. My Grandma passed away yesterday, and I wanted to talk about that instead of the episode I had planned for today. I'll probably be off of socials for the next few days grieving and processing this with my family. Take care of yourself For more Bite-Sized Philosophy content, subscribe to the show wherever you get your podcasts, follow me on Twitter or subscribe to my email list for a fun story delivered right to your inbox every single Friday! --- Support this...