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Are our busy lives sending us on a path to loneliness? Social connections matter more than we think. Some fundamentals to build stronger connections. Read more
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Cultivate the right motivation for long term success and well-being. Read more
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Seek to balance growth and well-being in a sea of overachievers. Read more
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Increase motivation and success. How we frame our goals matters. Using a Promotion Focus or Prevention Focus. Read more
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We can increase our brainpower. By reducing the effect of cognitive fatigue. Read more
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Expected value helps us make higher quality decisions. And feel better about them too. Read more
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Luck exists in various forms. We can influence how much we benefit from it. Read more
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Everyone needs practice to become great. It’s how we practice that matters. Use Deliberate Practice to level up. Read more
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The unexpected truth of achievement. Effort matters more than talent. Read more
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Turn envy into a force for good. The positive side of social comparison. Read more
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We adapt to what we get and want more. How to manage our treadmill of desire. Read more
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Is it ever good for a date to feel like an interview? Questions get a bad rep. Here’s how we can fix that. Read more
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Aggressive growth and performance can spell disaster. A story of a marathon for steady success. Read more
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How to use long term thinking to live better. Why I’ve gone deep with yoga. Read more
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Our desire to win is killing our relationships. A surprise dinner gone horribly wrong. Read more
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Can a failed marriage be a good thing? Rethink fear and mine for growth. Read more
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Surprising benefits of gratitude. And easy ways to practice more gratitude. Read more
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Three principles for open mindedness and better judgement. Yoga teacher training taught me importance of fresh perspective. Read more
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Use first principles to re-think long held beliefs. Car shopping with my parents taught be to think better. Read more
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It’s easy to misuse metrics and miss our goals. Three misguided metrics we use. Read more
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I’m a few days into a trip to Mexico with some friends. It’s midday and we’ve been sitting on the beach, catching up on stories. It’s been a few years since we’ve gotten together. The warmth of the sun and serenity of the beach make for a relaxing backdrop to detach ourselves from the usual Read more
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“You should travel!” It’s summer 2021, and I had taken a 3-month leave of absence from my job. With warm weather and the idea of a few months of “free time,” travel was the most common suggestion from people around me on how I should spend my time. The idea of a few months without Read more
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Note: I’m trying out Substack as a publishing platform going forward. Subscribe here: timk.substack.com/ It’s happy hour at a hip Thai restaurant in Fremont, Seattle. I’m seated at a table perched on a platform with a view of the entire restaurant. The appetizers on the table have gone cold and I’m clutching my beer like Read more
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“Hey, it’s been a while.Want to grab a coffee?” I text my friend to catch up. Grabbing a coffee and sitting down at a cafe has become the default activity to have a conversation with people, even if one doesn’t enjoy coffee. This time, however my friend responds, “How about a walk? I gotta hit Read more
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“What’s your level of Japanese?” I get asked this question regularly. It usually comes after somebody has asked me how my weekend/week/day has been and I mention that I studied some Japanese. After the natural next question of “How long have you been studying?” (3.5 years) people now ask, “Are you fluent?” (No) I always Read more
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