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7 Life Lessons from a Guy Who Can’t Move Anything but His Face

It’s not a joke. The only parts of my body I can move are my eyes and lips. My hands, feet, arms, and legs, are almost totally paralyzed, managing the occasional twitch and nothing more. And yet… I have an amazing life. Using speech recognition technology, I’ve written articles read by more than 5…

Mar 24, 2017

Forget About Setting Goals. Focus on This Instead.

jamesclear.com

We all have things that we want to achieve in our lives — getting into the better shape, building a successful business, raising a wonderful family, writing a best-selling book, winning a championship, and so on. And for most of us, the path to those things starts by setting a specific and…

Mar 13, 2017

Why I’m leaving Snapchat and so are all your friends

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Snapchat is the darling of technology: for years, we’ve fawned over the company for being innovative, using daring interfaces and out of the ordinary tactics to get people to pay it. Despite the fact that the app was always what some would consider “hostile” to new users, full of design…

Mar 5, 2017

Haters and Critics: How to Deal with People Judging You and Your Work

jamesclear.com

It doesn’t matter how you choose to live your life — whether you build a business or work a corporate job; have children or choose not to have children; travel the world or live in the same town all of your life; go to the gym 5 times a week or sit on the couch every night — whatever you do, someone…

Feb 28, 2017

Exactly How To Spend The Last Hour Of Your Workday

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It’s 4 p.m. and you’re having a hard time focusing. So you stare at your computer and click in and out of lots of tabs. But when you look up, you see it’s only 4:03 p.m. Then, you get a glass of water, which takes all of seven minutes. You’re not feeling inspired to tackle something important, but…

Feb 28, 2017

A warning from Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and Stephen Hawking

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This Boston Dynamics robot can walk around and stock shelves like a human can. “The automation of factories has already decimated jobs in traditional manufacturing, and the rise of artificial intelligence is likely to extend this job destruction deep into the middle classes, with only the most…

Feb 28, 2017