Updated and expanded post from Try Reason! Watching the Olympics, I became amazed at the skills these men and women possess. To achieve such phenomenal skills requires more than just setting big long-term goals – like winning a gold in the Olympics. It requires many, many years of hard work […]
Updated from an earlier post on Try Reason! In a previous post, I identified an outline for identifying 5 year goals, which begins with identifying your central purpose in life (CPL). In this post, I detail how I arrived at my current 5 year goals. I start with my current CPL – to […]
All things being equal most of us want more money. All things being equal most of us want a career that brings immense personal satisfaction. What if those two things do not align? What if the career that you would love to pursue makes it extremely difficult to make money. Some common […]
Every action we choose requires time and effort – time and effort that could be spent doing another activity. So its to our best interest to spend each second on activities that create the most value for us – on actions that are value-dense. “Since a value is that which one […]
In a world where ambition is sometimes frowned upon, why should you explicitly focus on such a habit and more so, consider it a virtue? Consider this definition of ambition by Ayn Rand: “the systematic pursuit of achievement and of constant improvement in respect to one’s goal.” By this conception, […]