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WDS 2019 Tickets On-Sale Now: Join Us Next Summer for a Grand Adventure

Link: Join Us in Portland for WDS 2019!

For 8 years, we’ve brought together amazing and remarkable people from all over the world for a summer gathering known as the World Domination Summit (WDS). Over 1000 people from over 30+ countries will travel to beautiful Portland, Oregon to discuss, “how can we live a remarkable life in a conventional world.”

At WDS, each attendee creates their own personalized schedule using our own mobile app to take part in attendee led-meetups, fun activities an...

WDS Videos Are Now on YouTube!

Link: WDS on YouTube

For the past eight years, I’ve worked with a small team to produce an annual celebration called the World Domination Summit. It’s one of the few things I’ve made that holds up over time. Every year we all end the weekend feeling exhausted, yet grateful.

A lot of people have asked how to watch the talks from our main stage keynotes. Since year one, we’ve had a bunch of them online… but never before on YouTube!

Well, guess what: now whenever you’re watching cat videos or...

Sometimes The Best Thing You Can Hear Is “It’s Going to Be Okay”

I’ve had a few people write in to ask me if I’ve stopped blogging. Nope—but I’m sorry! It sure looks that way.

I’ve just been on hiatus while writing a new book. I’ll tell you about it soon, and I very much look forward to getting back to regular posts here. (In the meantime, the daily podcast continues.)

For now, I thought I’d pop up and express something that’s been on my mind. Every now and then, I see a post offering “Advice for My Younger Self,” and I’ve been asked to share mine in in...

The Future of the World Domination Summit

Way back in 2011, 400 adventurers gathered in Portland, Oregon to consider an important question, “How do we live a remarkable life in a conventional world?”. Embracing the core values of Community, Adventure, and Service, the event was called the World Domination Summit.

8 years later, our once “little” community has grown to over 10,000 adventurers representing all 50 states and over 40+ countries.

We’ve broken world records, learned to Bollywood dance, faced our fears, found true connec...

Limited Time: “Born for This” Is Just $1.99 from Major Booksellers

Link: Get Born For This for $1.99

This week my publisher is running a special promotion to discount the digital version of Born for This to just $1.99. You can get it on whatever platform you prefer.

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This is the most personal book I’ve written, but it’s not really about me—it’s about how to find the work you were meant to do.

Here’s a video featuring several of the people from the book:

 

Here’s how...

Language Matters: Lessons in Editing from Mr. Rogers

I went to see the Mr. Rogers movie last week (“Won’t You Be My Neighbor”) and found it as heartwarming and uplifting as I expected.

If you’re able to see it in a theatre, don’t hesitate. At the screening I attended, everyone applauded at the end. This doesn’t happen much in Portland, Oregon. It felt like we were on a flight landing in Miami from Central America (it’s a thing).

Afterwards I stumbled on an article that details the level of precision that Fred Rogers put into editing the l...

168 Hours: What I’ve Learned Tracking Every 15 Minutes of My Week

For the past two weeks I’ve been tracking every 15 minute interval of my life. I borrowed this time-tracking practice from Laura Vanderkam, who writes helpful books including 168 Hours, which outlines the practice in a lot of detail.

One of Laura’s principles is that “you have more time than you think.” Through her research, she’s found that most people who claim to work more than 50 hours a week tend to over-report their work hours, sometimes dramatically so. In other words, a lot of the...

No Reservations to Parts Unknown: Thank You, Anthony Bourdain

I wasn’t always an Anthony Bourdain fan. My first exposure to him came when I read a critical comment he’d made that didn’t sit right with me. But that was evidently just a passing remark, and I didn’t even know the context, so a couple of years ago I started paying more attention to him. I enjoyed his show whenever I saw it playing in hotel lounges and airports around the world.

Then I read a New Yorker profile that radically shifted my early perspective. I loved it! I remember reading it...

Don’t Make Important Decisions Out of Desperation

One of the best things about having more than one source of income is that it provides security when something goes wrong. You’re not dependent on your employer—so that even if a job loss would be a major problem, at least it wouldn’t be an all-out disaster.

But what if you don’t have that security set up, and you lose your job… what do you do?

Here’s how a reader is experiencing this situation:

“I am currently in a dilemma and in the absence of a mentor who can give me advice. I do not...

If You Want to Make Money, Don’t Study Hard in School

If you want to make money, question the rules and don’t study hard in school. That’s the finding of a new study:

In 1968, researchers began studying 12-year-old students who were in the sixth grade. They examined the influence of their intelligence, characteristics, behaviors and their parents’ socioeconomic status. Then, 40 years later, they followed up with those students. Not surprisingly, the students who were described by teachers as “studious” were more likely to have prestigious jo...