The Art of Doing Your Own Thing
The best learning experiences comes from doing your own thing. Especially as a high school student. There isn’t much risk involved, you’re living with your parents, and you probably have a whole lot of...
How to Tell if Your Creative Idea Is Great
Humans have the crazy capability to come up with stupendous ideas. As someone who loves cinema, I always had a habit of coming up with plots for movies. It wasn’t until last November, when my curiosity...
Even The Government Doesn’t Practice What They Preach
If having the most prosperous economy in the world wasn’t enough, America want’s that title for data mining as well. Recently TikTok CEO...
Something We Can Learn From Comedians
I had someone reach out to me about a week ago about advice on writing, reaching more people, and how to share it with a crowd. I feel like asking for advice is harder online since it’s tough to create a...
Underestimating is Holding You Back
I feel like underestimating how hard something is directly contributing to commitment issues and procrastination. For example, if you are between the ages of 16 and 27 and you had a semi-deep conversation...
Why “Plan A” Doesn’t Work
Playing chess showed me that thinking only one step ahead isn’t enough most times. Applying this knowledge to life, I started thinking ahead and made multiple backup strategies that added depth to my plans. Doing this...
Why People Watch Movies
There are many factors that can make movies a masterpiece, but certain elements are more important than others to tell a more compelling story. These are the elements that I judge a movie off of, so this is all based on...
The Lack of Integrity in Modern Day Consumerism
We live in a time where anything is marketable. For instance, I found a handbag shaped very odd and you could barely fit anything useful into it, and to make it worse, it was made out of tin. I understand being different helps...
An Underrated Perspective
If I didn’t write this article, and you weren’t reading this, then the both of us would have been doing something completely different. Were we going to do something more productive, or nothing at all? This is something that...
Boost Your Productivity with this To-Do list Alternative
Though to-do lists are useful, not everyone can utilize it correctly. I’ve been using a method called timeboxing and it has boosted my productivity...
Are Successful People "Lucky"?
There are many examples of these “lucky” people or “outliers” that many think struck gold multiple times. Think about Elon Musk, he was co-founder of PayPal, invested heavily into Tesla early and became CEO, her...
The Fine Line Between Ego and Self Confidence
Ego is the enemy. You’ve probably read that somewhere or heard it in a conversation, and if you didn’t then you’re in the right place. Ego will always be the cause of your downfall, not your friends, enemies, or your...
We Fear Things We Shouldn’t Fear
This is really aimed towards the vast majority of people, which probably includes you too. We fear things that we think will cause great harm to us and will destroy our lives. I think it’s totally fine to be afraid, but some...
Problems With Having Role Models
I’m not against the idea of having a role model, in fact I have many. I think that most people have the wrong idea of what characteristics to borrow from their desired role model. I know this because for a long time, I only...
Everyone’s a loser, and how you can be the better loser
There hasn’t been a case where someone has won in every situation. all of us have encountered failure from the earliest stages of life and we...
Motivation is Dumb, Here’s Something Better
Now I’m not saying that motivation is completely useless, I just think that there are far better methods to fuel your goals and dreams. Most people think that watching motivational TED Talks instead of watching topics the...
Why Having Unfiltered Friendships are better
I am not an expert about friends or friendships, in fact I can count the number of friends I have on one hand. This isn’t anything to be sad about though, having a smaller circle of friends mean that you guys know each...