One of the best things you can do to improve yourself is to fail at something new. The first time you rode a bike, you failed. Repeatedly. And if you were willing to get up and try again, and again, you learned a new skill. Failure was the price you paid to learn. Becoming Friends with Failure [...]
When you introduce money, politics, or religion as a topic of conversation, you venture into the intimate. Revealing the deeper, authentic parts of yourself - how you really feel about God, or the way the world should be run, or your score in the financial game of life - talking taboo is voyeurism of the [...]
Photo courtesy of Chris Guillebeau An entrepreneur exists along the fine line between impostor and badass. Thankfully, at Pioneer Nation, I got to spend a few days with lots of other people on this fine line, too. (If you have not read about the Impostor Complex, go check it out. Come back to my blog later; compared to Tara Gentile's work, I'm totally [...]
Danger Man was the greatest failure of my life. (And in a life as adventurous as mine, that's really saying something.) This week I entered the Don Quixote Windmill Contest, a video competition for a $10,000 prize. The hosts of the competition are looking for the Best Bad Idea. The purpose of the Quixote's Windmill Prize [...]