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How to Be the Best Kind of Drug

How to Be the Best Kind of Drug

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Michael Thompson

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On Parenting, Change, and Becoming Someone Who Actually Matters

On Parenting, Change, and Becoming Someone Who Actually Matters

A time will come when it’s your chance to be the best in the world

Michael Thompson

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13 Plain and Practical Things I Learned After I Was 30 That Have Radically Changed My Life

13 Plain and Practical Things I Learned After I Was 30 That Have Radically Changed My Life

#11: Buy better knives

Dec 9, 2021

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11 Ways to Simplify Your Life Today

Steal a few that resonate with you and make them your own

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How to Quietly Get People’s Attention in a Noisy World

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How to Never Grow Old

Allowing yourself to become intellectually dead is a choice

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What I’ve Learned Since Taking a Raft from Africa to Europe to Find a Better Life

What I’ve Learned Since Taking a Raft from Africa to Europe to Find a Better Life

George Blue Kelly

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My Life Found Meaning When My Infant Son Died

My Life Found Meaning When My Infant Son Died

Grief can empower you

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How I Became a Lecturer at Harvard at 28 Years Old Without Any Teaching Experience

How I Became a Lecturer at Harvard at 28 Years Old Without Any Teaching Experience

Sometimes you gotta have the courage to go places you have no business being in

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How to Wake Up Smiling: The 9 Decisions That Led To A Life I Love

“You only have to get things right a…

How To Communicate More Clearly

7 truths we should all speak more often

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How You Subtly Make a Lasting Impression on Someone’s Life

The magic resides in the places most people…

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