The world bursts at the seams with people ready to tell you you’re not good enough. On occasion some may be correct. But do not do their work for them. Seek any job; ask anyone out; pursue any goal. Don’t take it personally when they say “no” – they may not be smart enough to [...]

The networking that matters is helping people achieve their goals. Doing it reliably and repeatedly so that over time people have an interest in helping you achieve your goals, because they have a stake in it.
– Seth Godin
I wouldn’t call myself an introvert, but I am definitely a not-extrovert. I am reasonably good at meeting [...]

If you got the skin to be rejected 800 times in a row, 801 is gonna be a crazy play.
– Social Media Entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk, describing the Hot Girl Rule (~45:10)
Having travelled and moved around a lot in the past several years, I’ve been through a number of social resets. I like exploring the [...]

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
– Aristotle
As Ayn Rand pointed out in her excellent book, Philosophy: Who Needs It, we are all philosophers.
We all have a certain attitude towards life, we all have different hypotheses regarding Flying Spaghetti Monsters, and we all have a standard by which [...]

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
– Thomas Jefferson
Deception is cancerous. The first mutation of a truth charts a path to colonize its host. One fib demands another, two lies need the proof of two more, until eventually even the most innocent half-truth metastasizes into a falsehood requiring surgery.
A lie is a [...]

It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.
– Author Unknown
If your primary goal in life is to meet an amazing woman, you probably won’t.
Setting out on a mission to find a girlfriend is like starting a company to get rich: It focusses you on the wrong things and [...]

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
– Dale Carnegie
Positive relationships are the foundation of an interesting life.
Regular readers of my blog know that I advocate talking to strangers as a fantastic way of [...]

Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
– Chuang Tzu
95% of everything you’ll ever need to know about meeting women can be summed up in four words: Go with the flow. Instead of trying to meet girls, focus entirely on [...]

The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your entire reality is a reflection of how much you value your own life.
The people around you–bosses, business [...]

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
– William R. Alger
Unsolicited advice is what you get when you give someone who isn’t listening, counseling they didn’t ask for, offering recommendations you probably aren’t even following yourself. It’s about 10,000 times easier to give advice than it is to take it, and [...]