Self Improvement

Put yourself in the unknown, with no plan nor agenda and just the notion that whatever happens you will handle it. Shouldn't confidence come from competence? The opposite. What grows with competence is your comfort zone - it reduces the unknown.

Most designers don’t plateau because their skills stop improving. They plateau because their habits slowly start making decisions for them.

Don’t trust THE design process. Design your design work

Your decision making process is shaped by the world around you. Read the article to learn how to design for default to make better decisions.

Finding happiness requires you to stop procrastinating, get the bad experiences out of the way early, and take on the hard stuff now.

Want to learn how to stay focused on your goals and make consistent progress? Read this article to discover what top performers do differently.

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When you’re stuck, you need to actively seek feedback. Having the right information helps you change your behavior. Here's how to get better feedback and reach your goals.

Deliberate practice is the key to expert performance in writing, teaching, sports, programming, music, medicine, therapy, chess, business, and more. But there’s more to it than 10,000 hours. Read to learn how to accelerate learning, overcome plateaus, turn experience into expertise, and enhance focus.

Our devotion to our values gets tested in the face of a true crisis. But it’s also an opportunity to reconnect, recommit, and sometimes, bake some bread.

There is a concept known as choice architecture that can dramatically impact your willpower and performance. Read this article to understand how it works.

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A brief exploration of stepping out of my comfort zone.

Learn how to spot the difference between and expert and an imitator with 5 key tells.

Are you on the wrong side of being right? One of the biggest mistakes I've ever made was trying to be right. This mistake holds you back ...

A summary of Carol Dweck's book Mindset, which explores our two mindsets (fixed and growth) and how they impact not only our attitudes and learning but also our outcomes.

Big dramatic changes don't work. If you want to improve, tiny gains over an uncommonly long period turn into massive results.

Uncover the key differences between people that bring an open and closed mind to the table and learn how those two mindsets affect our success.

Understanding where you have an edge and where you don't can help you prevent problems, spot opportunities others miss, and rapidly learn. We all have a circle of competence - an area in which we have a lot of earned knowledge.

First Principles thinking breaks down true understanding into building blocks we can reassemble into something that simplifies our problem.

The authors of "Getting it Done" tell us why our feedback usually stinks, the three types of feedback, and how to make feedback a lot better.

We learn valuable lessons when we experience failure and setbacks. Most of us wait for those failures to happen to us, however, instead of seeking them out. But deliberately making mistakes can give us the knowledge we need to more easily overcome obstacles in the future.

One of the most beneficial skills you can learn in life is how to consistently put yourself in a good position. Strong positions are not an accident. Weak positions aren't bad luck.

The musings of a designer on why he designs the way he does and what he’s learned along the journey.

On dedication and love for the invisible work.

Farnam Street is devoted to helping you develop an understanding of how the world really works, make better decisions, and live a better life.