Ideas are free, execution is priceless.

The term protestant work ethic was coined in the early nineteen hundreds. But it wasn’t until about seventy years later than a pair of clinical psychologists created a scale by which to measure it. Here are a few of my favorite questions from the framework: *People who fail at a job have usually not tried hard enough. *Our society would have fewer problems if people had less leisure time….

If you don’t make a name for yourself, someone will make one for you. This has been a mantra of mine ever since my first book went viral, which led to my appearance on a nationally syndicated news program. Millions of viewers saw my debut interview, which had the following job title underneath my head. Nametag wearer. How proud my parents must have been. Four years of college and…

There is no success or failure, there is only what happens. Consequences of our actions. Right or wrong, good or bad, win or lose, positive or negative, these are just words. Mental constructs. Socially inherited labels that we attach to our experiences. They have no moral and objective meaning. There is no tribunal that decide which result is the best. Sadly, human beings love to compartmentalize. It’s embedded in…

Thor, the god of thunder, was given a memorable piece of advice from his mother: Everyone fails at who they’re supposed to be. But the measure of a person, a hero, is how they succeed at being who they are. Her words suggest a question that most of us have probably never asked. What kind of relationship do we have with milestones? That’s a big word in our culture….

Science fiction and fantasy writers typically start their novels with the answer to the following question. What happens if you change just one core rule in the universe? Authors do this because they’re creating limits for their fictional world, and they have to make sure the story stays accessible and believable to their audience. Because once you change one rule, it effects everything going forward. You can almost hear…