How to Think Like Elon Musk
How I can become great like Richard Branson, Steve Jobs, or think like Elon Musk? A few years ago, a computer science student asked a version of this question on Quora. One the people who answered was Justine Musk: Someone who has a unique view of how to think like Elon Musk. It’s a view…
5 Mantras For Happiness: A Guide for Anxious People
What is a Mantra? According to an article on the Chopra Center’s Web site, the mantra definition is this: Mantra is an instrument of the mind—a powerful sound or vibration that you can use to enter a deep state of meditation. Like a seed planted with the intention of blossoming into a beautiful perennial, a…
Surrender is the Path to a Better Life
We read self-help books, listen to podcasts, hire coaches, and go to therapy, in an effort to change or fix all the things we think are wrong with our lives. This is why my team jokes that every guest on our podcast is a reflection of some problem I’ve been trying to solve in my…
The 5 Essential Elements of a Life-Long Spiritual Practice
Most of us live in a perpetual state of dissatisfaction, stuck in an eternal gap between who we are and who we want to be. But, without this dissatisfaction, humans would not progress and evolve. A dissatisfied person solves a problem. And humanity benefits from their solution, which in turn, enables them to solve other…
35 Pieces of Life Advice We Should Get, But are Never Given
People ask me what I’ve learned from talking to all these people. And this morning, I woke up somewhat jet-lagged with a flurry of thoughts. First, as Nikki Groom taught me, everyone has a story worth telling, and anybody can teach you something. I’ve received education from bank robbers, drug dealers, psychologist and billionaires. I…
Stop Treating your Time as If You Have an Infinite Supply
As a kid, I was obsessed with how fickle time was. I wondered why our summer vacations in India felt like they were never going to end, and I wondered why the school year would go by so fast. (I later found out this is the basic idea behind Einstein’s theory of relativity). As you…
The One Thing Nobody Can Take Away From You
I was broken in every sense. I had a boyfriend that I really loved that broke my heart. I had no money. I didn’t know where my next meal was coming from. And that was a turning point for me because that was when I decided that all these other things, a job, a boyfriend,…
The Power of Analog in a Distracted World
In the last 20 years, we’ve replaced books with screens, voices with the text, and sitting together in person with broadcasting the details of our lives as though we are reality TV stars. We’ve done this at a breakneck pace, never really questioning whether it’s actually making our lives better. I’m not sure it is.…
The 3 Most Precious Resources You Have (Money is Not One of Them)
Every day you make thousands of choices about how you are going to spend the most precious resources you have. This is something that may seem simple to you, but it isn’t. If we knew and actually paid attention to this, most of our lives would look very different. The quality of life you want…
The Antidote to the Disease of More
How much is enough? When we fail to consider the consequences, what ensues is greed, unchecked ambition, perpetual dissatisfaction and a life from which there is no escape from the hedonic treadmill. Regardless of how rich you are, you feel poor. Regardless of how much you have, you need more. No matter how great you…
