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Personal Development

3 Life Lessons

by dragos on August 9, 2010 · 30 comments

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Today I will follow an honoring invitation from fellow blogger Abubakar Jamil, on a topic very close to me: life lessons. Since life is already too short for all the things we’d like to do, I will skip any introduction. 1. You Gotta Live It To Settle It The Story When I was 18 I [...]

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I’m not a movie hyper. I don’t rush to the movie theater at the first trailer, shaking my head in an uncontrollable enthusiastic crisis. On the contrary. I saw Titanic 3 years after it was launched. Matrix, 2 years after (please forgive me for that, I still took the redpill). Even Fight Club came to [...]

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Defeat. Boredom. Lack of meaning in your life. All these symptoms, and many others, of course, are a sign that you need to start fresh. To run again. To leave the old behind and embrace the new. Te ignite a new spark that will light a new life, with a deeper meaning, broader experience and [...]

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Minimum Survival Kit

by dragos on June 28, 2010 · 25 comments

in Personal Development

I was a soldier in the Romanian army. For 6 months, I woke up at 5 AM each morning (except during the 6 nights of Romanian Revolution, when I didn’t sleep at all), I practiced fight techniques and learned tremendously.. Romanian army wasn’t what you may call a summer camp. On the contrary. It was [...]

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I bet you clicked on the link for this blog post only to find out what “scriptless” means, right? Scriptless? I think you know “merciless”, “brainless” or even “topless”, but “scriptless”?, what’s the thing with this word, after all? Well, I like to think I invented it (didn’t find it in a dictionary anyway). And [...]

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The other morning, just before we had breakfast, Bianca came to me shouting: “Dad, dad, come, you have to see this!” She doesn’t do this every time, so I rushed to see what was that all about. It might have been something really interesting. As I stumbled into the living room, I saw her on [...]

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Today is a big day for my friend Steven Aitchison. He’s launching his long awaited self improvement program called “Alter Your Jacket”. But before diving too much into the program details, let me rewind a bit and tell you more about this guy, Steven. I first met him more than a year ago, when I [...]

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This is a guest post by Srinivas Rao, @skooloflife. Everything that you know how to do today and you do effortlessly is something that you once didn’t know how to do. You weren’t born knowing how to walk, talk, or speak. You learned all of those things and the notion of limitations probably never existed [...]

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I’ve been playing a lot lately with these concepts: less, more and the thing in between (usually called balance). Why do we need more? And more of what? Why sometimes we tend to value balance, while otherwise we tend to lean towards one of the ends? And, most of all, why sometimes less is good? [...]

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This is a guest post by Makenzie Kelly, @makenziekelly. “Judge a man by his questions rather than answers”, Voltaire Some say curiosity killed the cat.  I say what doesn’t kill the cat, makes it stronger! Curiosity has been classified as a nice-to-have attribute of a person; it definitely hasn’t been a reinforced attribute by our [...]

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This is a guest post by Greg Blencoe, @gregblencoe In his recent post “How To Invest In Yourself (And Why)”, Dragos discussed the importance of exercising regularly.  I couldn’t agree more. I have been exercising in some form or another since I was five or six years old.  I played on countless sports teams growing [...]

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