They say that getting up earlier than everyone else is supposed to give you an unfair advantage. But instead, you get a weakened immune system and brain fog.
I slept no more than five hours a night for years. I did that to escape my 9–5 job, and it worked.
However, after I became a writer only and was able to manage my time freely, I continued to do it anyway. Meanwhile, I was getting older and hardly…
The reason is simple, and no cause for concern.
When we want to learn a new language, pursue a career, or increase our income, our progress follows a pattern. At first, when we’re at the very beginning, each step seems infinitely tedious. But this phase doesn’t last long. It’s usually followed by a period of rapid progress. Now we’re…
Repetitions are so boring. Right? No, not true. Repetition is the key to any kind of success.
Doing the same thing over and over again sounds like a torturous routine, and that’s true until we find an excellent reason for those repetitions.
We all know that nothing in life just falls into our laps. But we also overlook the fact that success is actually subject to only…
As a writer, you write stories and market them. That’s all you have to do.
When you publish books, you get bad reviews, too. You can’t avoid it. So, of course, it’s depressing to see the first one-star review in the online store, and then when the reviewer writes harebrained nonsense, you can hardly keep your fingers still.
You want to prove them wrong and…
Too tired, too down, too anything — moods can screw up many things for us. Ignoring moods can therefore be a superpower.
People are not robots, and that’s a good thing. Our emotions distinguish us from soulless machines. But everything good also has its downsides. For example, when anger makes us make bad decisions or laziness prevents us from realizing our dreams, we sometimes wish we could at least imitate a robot.
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