The Humble Libertarian original

By: The Motley Fool David Gardner

The Art of Improvement

By: Angie Hunt––Iowa State Futurity

By Aytekin Tank, Founder of JotForm The best-selling productivity author David Allen called it Getting Things Done. Malcolm Gladwell, researcher and writer about the wonderful weirdness of human psychology, coined the “10,000 hour rule.” But perhaps neither method for maintaining momentum has been adopted as fiercely as an off-the-cuff remark made by comedian Jerry Seinfeld over a decade ago: Don’t break the chain. “He said for each day that I do my task of writing, I get to put a big red X over that day. After a few days you’ll have a chain. Just keep at it and the chain will grow longer every day. You’ll like seeing that chain, especially when you get a few weeks under your belt. Your only job next is to not break the chain.” Don’t break the chain.” Not breaking the chain leads to momentum. And momentum isn’t mystical. Science defines it as the force that allows something to grow stronger or faster as time passes. Read the rest on Medium. This is the song your...

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” -Thomas Edison “Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.” -Thomas Edison “Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.” -Thomas Edison “Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.” -Thomas Edison “When you grow up you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money.That's a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your ...

I learned just about everything I know about business from selling millions of dollars worth of cars, trucks, and SUVs at a high volume regional automotive dealership in just under three years. And that’s saying a lot because my college degree is a Bachelor of Business and I majored in Entrepreneurship. I learned a lot during those four years, but not even close to as much as I did selling cars during those other three years. It’s a tough business to make it in because people are spending a lot of money when they buy a vehicle, they’ve never met you before, and you will probably never see each other again. And the car business created its own bad image and sowed the seeds of consumer distrust for decades before most dealerships cleaned up their act in the era of the informed customer. So I learned very quickly how to build relationships and trust in a very short amount of time. Sometimes in as little as three hours from the time I met a potential customer to the time they ...

When you have the great foresight not to consume every resource you've got, what's left over becomes savings. When you have the great insight to trade your savings for tools that make you more productive, your savings become capital. Why Capitalism Is Good Capital is what makes work a little or a lot easier on you, and the key to getting ahead is spending less on consumption and investing more on capital. Most people consume right up to their limit, and they stay poor or middle class forever. Those who have great success in life are usually those who create more for the rest of the world than they consume. Capitalism's Characteristics Resources find their way into such a person's hand in great amounts because they will grow in that person's care. Most of us are more or less given exactly as much as we can be trusted to be responsible with in this world. For many of us that's just enough not to die or riot each month. For a very few of us th...

The ever insightful Dr. Jordan Peterson at the University of Toronto explains exactly why high income earners make so much while social justice warriors who complain about them online make so little, while analyzing the choices and motivations of young female lawyers and the reasons for the income gap between men and women. Absolutely recommended viewing for anyone who really wants to understand why some people make more money than others: