Daily Spark

Developing the discipline of looking for and applying leverage is how you make substantial increases in your ability to solve problems.

If you’re able to go through the exercise of upgrading your limiting factors to enabling factors, the benefit is two-fold and well-worth it: you get more effective operations and, perhaps most import…

Sometimes you can be your own worst enemy when it comes to taking on challenges to foster growth.

It’s important to normalize the idea of discomfort — that isn’t to say that all forms of discomfort are good, but it remains true that it is only when we’re stretched beyond the limits we’re comforta…

Where you choose to spend your time greatly influences your ability to make long term progress towards your goals. 

Breaking things & accrued wisdom are huge but understated part of the creation process. It's not trial & error, it's trial & learning. Try things, break things, learn, repeat with greater wisdom, and…

This is the new paradigm: more minutes spent no longer guarantees that you will do better work. Learning to maximize EACH minute with focus & intention will.

How you experience the world is determined in large part by the stories you tell yourself about events have happened.

To have a healthy sense of optimism isn’t about hoping for a perfect world, it’s about resolving to be resilient in a decidedly imperfect one.

Growth doesn’t happen when you’re doing what is familiar and comfortable, it happens when you reach a point where you feel at capacity, uncomfortable perhaps, and out of ideas but resolve to keep on …

Yes, it is almost always uncomfortable to try new things, but what change worth making in life has ever been easy?

The widget is half the work. 

Leading a fulfilling life, doing great work, and having meaningful relationships all depend on your ability to make increasingly better judgments about how tolerant it makes sense to be or not to be …

New York University professors Dr. Gabriele Oettingen and Dr. Peter Gollwitzer developed a research-backed mental strategy called WOOP (Wish, Outcome, Ostacle, Plan) to help people change to healthie…

When you apologize for your identity or for tending to basic human needs, you shortchange the respect that you deserve as a human being among fellow human beings.

If there is only one rule that you could depend on to live an honest and examined life, let it be to always do with courage what makes sense — especially in situations when it’s challenging to do.

In all areas where progress and change matter, it helps to both be an ambassador for answering how and to have a very low tolerance for situations where no one seems to be asking it.