One night while I was walking through the streets of Asunción and listening to the audiobook Becoming Steve Jobs I picked up a gold nugget which I really liked. I had seen his commencement speech at Stanford before but somehow this idea hadn’t stuck with me before.

In this excerpt from The Art of Happiness the Dalai Lama explains the difference between beneficial and less beneficial desires.

Crossing the hotel parking lot on my way to meet with the Dalai Lama one afternoon, I stopped to…

This is from one of my favorite books The 7 habits of highly effective people.

I’ve read many books about motivation, drive and willpower, but I had never seen lack of motivation from the stress angle. It makes a lot of sense, as I myself feel more energized and motivated since I switched to a plant-based diet. Brendan Brazier’s explains in his book Thrive…

In the following excerpt from Dr. Garth Davis’s book Proteinaholic he explains how to recognize valid research and manipulated/biased/sponsored research.

Research Truth and BS: How to Speak Science

Everyone seems to talk about periodization training but what exactly is it? I like the explanation of Mark Lauren from his Book You are your own gym, one of my favorite exercise books and the one with which I started my new fitness journey some time…