FourthEye

Category: lifestyle design

  • The Most Underappreciated Lever For Success

    Your potential is determined by the quality of your health. If you’re sleep deprived, overweight and running on caffeine, how can you expect to produce your best work? Most of us focus on the wrong things when we try to eke out more productivity or be more creative. We work harder, pound the coffee, and…

  • It’s Not A Business

    Being an entrepreneur looks a lot different in 2024 than it did in 2004. Given that the world is rapidly moving toward an economy built around the personal brand, the creator, it’s harder to differentiate between an artist and a solopreneur. Before you’re managing employees, before you’re selling a product, honing your craft as a…

  • Is Life Really Hard?

    Often we measure the difficulty of our lives by the perceived obstacles and hardships we encounter. Probably the biggest lesson that I’ve learned from developing myself via meditation, stoicism, psychology and even marketing, is that the value we extract from things is mostly a matter of our perception. Not only does the $50 wine glass…

  • Divorce Pleasure, Marry Joy

    Pleasure is not a lower version of joy- it’s like a cotton swap compared to a nourishing meal. Instead of providing lasting peace and fulfillment it bloats you like a balloon, leaving you more hungry soon after. We all look for substitutes and conveniences to tie us over. I’m absolutely no different but I try…

  • How To Live & Not Just Work

    Life is not something to be left for after you’re satisfied with your success. If you’re anything like me, ditching recreation and “low value activities” to eek out more achievement might sound familiar. I’ve talked a lot about how to recover better, work less and do more and optimize for happiness and fulfillment, but what…

  • The Myth Of Discipline Revisited

    Misappropriated discipline is the enemy of creativity. If we accept that success is being consistently good over a long period of time, how we produce quality consistently is the pressing question. Discipline is but one part of the toolkit for creating a life well lived, but like the old hammer and nail story it gets…

  • Automating Success & Rethinking Luck

    Everything important should be decision-less. At first this concept might seem psycho or confused, but it’s the most important key to success. A lot of us assume that our decision making energy should be spent in full on things we deem important, or vital to a life well lived, but very few of us ever…

  • Busy: The Relationship Between Effort & Content Creation

    Sup peeps, hope you’re doing well. As an antidote to my horrible, unplanned hiatus from posting here I’ve been thinking about how to change my relationship with content creation and all of my hair-brain so called long-term goals. A number of years ago, for a variety of reasons, I was able to get a lot…

  • Retirement Revisited

    Despite my young age, retirement has long been a fascination of mine. Perhaps this makes sense given my interest in many topics generally associated with older demographics, but even since my elementary school days I’ve been thinking about the myth of retirement. Of course by “myth” in this context I don’t mean that retirement isn’t…

  • The Practical Search For Passion

    Reflecting on the many articles I’ve published to FourthEye, I realized that though I’ve spent a decent amount of time talking about the importance of passion and managing it to achieve success and fulfillment, I’ve spent relatively little time addressing how we identify our passion. While everybody and their grandmother at some point or another…