Today’s extract from my forthcoming book about happiness explains the exact technique that I used when I was at a crossroads in my life and I decided I needed a new method to work out exactly what I wanted and where I was going. I’m keen to know what you think about this, so please do …
What follows is an extract from the new book I’m working on about happiness. In this section, I discuss how to go about finding out what your true passion is, and what you should pursue to inject meaning into your life. ****** In a way I was lucky—I always knew that writing was …
If there’s a question that gets asked of game writers and coaches more than any other, it’s this: What is your pick-up line? Yeah, for real. Dude thinks that all it takes to bag a hottie is this one incredible, indestructible sentence. This phantasmagorical formulation of words that is at once so compelling, so magnetic, …
The activity that has changed my life more than any other in the last few years is undoubtedly listening to podcasts. The podcast has of course come of age in that time: now a great many people put them out and standards are very high. And sticking in the headphones for an hour or so …
Any endeavour you undertake in life, whether it be writing a novel, starting a business, or learning to get good with girls will require that you make a massive effort in order to be successful. Be in no doubt – massive effort is a great thing. A man must have a mission in life and …
A quick tip for today about how to take in self-development advice most efficiently. If you’re anything like me you’re probably inundated with self-help tips every single day. From morning until night, as soon as I open Twitter, or check my emails, or look at Facebook, I am inundated with advice and techniques, ostensibly to make …
A little ‘trip’ down memory lane today. The following is an extract from the new book I’m working on at the moment about how to achieve happiness. In the incident I describe I’m certainly not happy . . . but it was one of the stranger occurrences of my younger, more dissolute life, in my party …
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in the last decade it’s that you can’t afford not to be a rebel. The days of quiet conformity are done. I’m sorry if you’re a quiet, conformist type. Maybe I was at one stage too. But not anymore. What changed in the last decade? A lot, but let’s focus on …
You haven’t got time for resentment. You haven’t got time for friction. You haven’t got time for beefs. You haven’t got time for any of this stuff. Are you crazy? If you have got time for those things, or think you have, then you really need to have a look at your priorities. Time, you …
I never realised before that I suffer from SAD—seasonal affective disorder. This is when the winter, the cold and dark, makes you feel depressed. And in a way I’m not sure that I do. It’s more the other way around—it’s more that sunshine and heat makes me ridiculously, irrationally happy. There’s a mini-heatwave going on …
