If any of you are college students like me, you find a paradox with the Untemplater lifestyle. You’ve read Tim Ferris, you’ve downloaded the Manifesto on this site, but this kind of lifestyle still seems utterly impossible. This is because the typical university experience might be the clearest example of the template lifestyle. Think about it. A typical college student has … [Read more...]

I'm excellent at planning, horrible at executing. I'm a classic over-researcher; I am great at coming up with ideas, figuring out what I need to do, drawing up action lists, then searching for more resources, and trying to find the best prices, etc. Unfortunately, I have a hard time moving past that stage. Fortunately, I've found a secret to getting things done. Since we're … [Read more...]

We normally see people who are lucky as unique, special, just like those who are exceptional talented and creative in their fields. However, there is an important relationship between exceptional creative performance or creative living and luck. Luck is not an abstract feature that some individuals possess and others lack; luck is a factor of attitude, observation, insight … [Read more...]

How do you unlock that secret door to becoming extremely productive? Easy, through total immersion. This year I made it so that my one goal in everything that I do is going to be total immersion. It's the obvious-yet-overlooked key to success and extreme productivity in life. See, I got the idea from language learning and method acting. In the world of language learning … [Read more...]

Sometimes we have a tendency of falling into a routine that we cruise through.  When this happens, we usually get slapped in the face with boredom and lack of ambition.  Such could happen when we become stenciled into a routine or template lifestyle.  "Same thing, different day" and "Can it be Friday yet?", or worse, "Can it by Happy Hour yet?", are frequent brain farts that … [Read more...]