Lessons on Fear and Change from Mark Twain and My 10-Year-Old Twins
When I was 16, I decided to leave my small hometown of Beaverton, Oregon, where I’d lived...
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3 Lessons From a Race Car Driver: How to Prepare When There’s No Time to Practice
Race car drivers don’t get much time to train the way other professional athletes do. Expenses such as track rental and entry fees, paying team members to help, and hospitality logistics make it tough. Often, we don’t practice...
Read More7 Lessons From the Most Influential Businesses on Social Media
Is social media marketing dead? Not only are some social media platforms shedding users and losing efficacy as marketing channels, but the bad press surrounding issues of privacy alone is enough to demoralize even the biggest...
Read MoreHow to Work Without Working: 3 Lessons From Three Successful Entrepreneurs
We want to build business empires, amass a huge amount of wealth, and become a worldwide sensation. Yet, we hate to work hard and show up every day to grind. We simply dread working, but we love the results that our work...
Read More6 Lessons From Design Thinking That Will Help You Rethink Success
Our lives are messy and complex, and there are always problems that need to be resolved. One of the best approaches you can use to deal with the complexity of life is the design thinking process. The process is based on...
Read MoreWhat if Elon Musk Ran Your Business? 4 Lessons From the Real Life Iron Man
The story of Iron man and Elon Musk starts when Robert Downey Jr. visited SpaceX headquarters miles away from the setting of the first Iron Man movie back in 2007. The actor was inspired to base his character on Elon Musk’s...
Read More5 Life Lessons You Can Learn From Hitting Rock Bottom
At one time, the term rock bottom was completely foreign to me. I can remember feeling really bad for anyone who claimed to have ‘hit rock bottom.’ What devastation they must feel. Their whole world must have just collapsed. How...
Read MoreHow I Built Nike: Phil Knight’s 4 Business Lessons for Young Entrepreneurs
Everybody knows what Nike is, but not so many know how it was built or who built it. Phil Knight, the once-young entrepreneur who left his lucrative accounting job to pursue his dream of having his own shoe company is the man...
Read More4 Lessons You Can Learn From the Founder of Walmart, Sam Walton
One day in the early 1960s, 44-year old Sam Walton founded his first department store in Bentonville, Arkansas a few years after being forced to let go of his first successful store for contract problems. Since this day, July...
Read More5 Life Lessons That Will Accelerate You Through Your Early 20s
For many people, living life in their early 20s is like walking through a maze at night time. You’re constantly unsure of which direction you need to take and are blinded by the dark notion that uncertainty will play a...
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7 Money Lessons We Can Learn From Beyoncé
Beyoncé Knowles is a wealthy person. With a net worth of more than $250 million, she clearly knows a little something about generating and keeping money.
Not all celebrities have the financial wits to keep an eye on their cash, but Beyoncé has not only built an empire, she has also protected it….
These are the 3 most important lessons fashion entrepreneur ‘The Man Repeller’ has learned about business
Leandra Medine — who calls herself the “Man Repeller” for her bold clothing choices — is not your typical entrepreneur.
For one, she’s only 27. For another, she’s a fashion blogger. And, before launching h…
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