3 Important Life Skills Nobody Ever Taught You Mark Manson An unfortunate side effect of our consciousness residing in our brains is that everything we experience in our lives involves us somehow. The car in traffic today cut you off. The cable news show you saw last night pissed you off. Your company’s massive growth this year gave you more money. As a result, we tend to have an inherent bias towards assuming that pretty much everything that happens to us is actually about us. But here’s a newsflash: Just because you experience something, just because something causes you to feel a certain way, just because you care about something, doesn’t mean it’s about you. Read More   Your...
A Short List of Books for Doing New Things Farnam Street  |  Andrew Ng Ng thinks innovation and creativity can be learned — that they are pattern-recognition and combinatorial creativity exercises which can be performed by an intelligent and devoted practitioner with the right approach. He also encourages the creation of new things; new businesses, new technologies. And on that topic, Ng has a few book recommendations. Given his list of accomplishments, the quality of his mind, and his admitted devotion to reading the printed word, it seems worth our time to check out the list. Read More   Training Tips from the World's Greatest Athlete Outside What change in your approach to training has had the biggest impact...
Ten Thousand started with one goal: to create the highest quality training gear without compromise. The journey over our first 12 months has taught us a tremendous number of lessons and surpassed even our most ambitious expectations. We’ve been overwhelmed by the positive response from our customers, partners, growing communities, and ever-expanding team. We’ve also, at times, been literally overwhelmed with keeping up with the pace of orders. Because you all have been so supportive and patient during our first year, we felt we owe an explanation about why we’ve had stockouts and what we’re doing to fix it. At our launch last October, three months worth of products sold out in the first two weeks. We were stoked but...
The 75-Year-Old Arm Wrestler New York Times  |  Adam Glanzman Norm’s been at it for 25 years and is still dominating the world of arm-wresting. He’s an awesome, and unexpected, example of perseverance and putting in countless hours of work for nothing but love of the sport. Read More   Alistair Brownlee Helping Brother Jonny Finish His Triathlon Sacrificing His Chance of Winning YouTube Not really much more to say about this one. An absolute must see. Watch Now   8 Healthy Habits That Are Cheaper Than Your Morning Latte The Chalkboard I really like this article since it hits on all the health tips I share with friends, related to food and otherwise. Some may seem pretty...
The Strange Brain of the World’s Greatest Solo Climber Nautilus  |  J.B. Mackinnon Honnold is history’s greatest ever climber in the free solo style, meaning he ascends without a rope or protective equipment of any kind. Above about 50 feet, any fall would likely be lethal, which means that, on epic days of soloing, he might spend 12 or more hours in the Death Zone. On the hardest parts of some climbing routes, his fingers will have no more contact with the rock than most people have with the touchscreens of their phones, while his toes press down on edges as thin as sticks of gum. Just watching a video of Honnold climbing will trigger some degree of vertigo, heart...
