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When people read books, take courses or work with coaches, they copy and paste someone else’s path to success, create derivative work that’s dead on arrival, and assume the advice, not their interpretation, was flawed. But more often than not it’s because they didn’t modify the advice to make it work for them.

Wes Kao is the co-founder of Maven. Prior to starting Maven, she was the co-founder of Altmba and helped with cohort-based courses for Outlier.org, David Perell’s Write of Passage, Tiago Forte’s Build a Second Brain, and Morning Brew. In this exclusive interview, she explains what it takes to design transformational online learning experiences.

From an early age, we’re all conditioned to search for the right answers. After being a straight-A student in high school, I was accepted to UC-Berkeley, the number one public school in America, in 1996. But I graduated with a 2.97 GPA and was subsequently fired from almost every job I’ve had in my professional…

Living without regrets is bad advice that sounds good. Regret is powerful because it helps us learn from our mistakes and make better decisions in the future.

What if you could be lazy and productive simultaneously? Productive people realize they should be lazy about things that don’t matter. By optimizing for laziness, they’re able to prioritize efforts with a disproportionate Impact .

In this interview, Julien Smith explains how to identify massive opportunities and capitalize on technology trends in any industry.

April Rinne has a story that is simultaneously heartbreaking and inspiring, which also enabled her to build a flux mindset: an essential skill for long-term success.

Rapid execution is a skill that will transform your life and your career. It can help you be more productive, accomplish big goals, and alter the course of your life.