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Tag: personal development

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • On Limiting Personal Stories

    Hello everyone, hope this article finds you doing well. Firstly, big shoutout to all of the new follows and people that have been showing support, I really appreciate ya. I’d like to ask you all, to leave some comments or feedback somewhere of the type of content that you’ve found most valuable and perhaps what…

  • Smithing Better Writing

    So it’s been a little bit since I posted any writing pieces to FourthEye (yes, yes I know you missed me). Jokes aside, although my goal is to publish at least one written blog post per week, I’ve been struggling with what to write about. I don’t know if I would describe my plight as…

  • Lessons From Pain

    Note: I realize that the theme of this piece overlaps some with part of what I covered in the last piece, so there is a bit of redundancy. I apologize for that in advance but I think there is still some value to be found here additional to what I wrote before, so perhaps look…

  • The Lessons of Mortality, Approaching 2021 & Cutting The Noise

    Facing this new year one of the things that struck me recently was the returning wisdom of always being able to find opportunity in a situation no matter how dire things may appear. In the midst of the haphazard handling of the Covid-19 epidemic by the United States, the passing of a family member, and…

  • Some Thoughts On The Case Of “Talent v Hard-Work”

    Both because of a debate that I’ve been watching unfold recently and my long standing interest in this topic, I thought I would offer what is hopefully a bit of a different take on the age-old case of “Talent v Hard-Work.” Before we get to the alternative model definition that I want to share in…

  • On Connecting Inputs With Outputs

    First and foremost, I want to say that I wrote the original piece that this will be working from a long time ago, and I’m not operating at a peak while typing this, so I may fail to do it justice in its now (hopefully) improved, revised and reworked form. The basic concept that I’d…

  • Lifestyle Design Part 3: Setting The Stage For Quality Work

    Originally, I hadn’t planned to associate this piece with lifestyle design when I first wrote about the ideas I’m about to share here, but I thought that much of what I’m gonna touch on is so fundamental to a quality life, that it may as well be put in the lifestyle design series. The basic…