August 2017
15 articles published this month.
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Miscellaneous Briefs
Beauty and the Brain
Numerous studies demonstrate that good looking people have a measurable advantage in life. How do we determine what is “good looking”? According to neurologist Anjan Chatterjee, it’s because of the way our…
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Approach a Job Interview as a Life-Changing Opportunity… Because It Just Might Be
WW, a reader, asks for tips on interviewing for a job... Hi Mark, I recently learned about your amazing success through the Mike Dillard Self Made Man podcast (Episode 2). Coming across this episode this week…
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Back Pain?
I could not walk more than five minutes without having to sit down. Some nights I barely slept because I couldn’t find a position that would lessen the pain. I went to two doctors: a neurosurgeon and an…
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The Fastest Way to Grow Rich… (and Not Risk Everything Else)
You’ve probably heard this story… When I was 33, I decided to become rich. And I made that my supreme and overriding goal. There were plenty of other things that I wanted to do – like reading books and playing…
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How Often Should You “Hit” Your Customers With Advertising?
It took us nearly 17 years to recognize a fact about marketing that we already knew. I’m talking about frequency: how often you should “hit” your prospects with ads. Instinct tells us it should be not too…
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Questions You’d Be Embarrassed to Ask
I probably shouldn’t be reprinting stuff like this, but since I’m part of the group and since it seems that golfers are nearly universally fond of puerile and/or sentimental and/or downright corny humor (and…
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Making money passively… very passively
Got this message today from my brother Justin: “We just closed on the sale of the ‘Seabird,’ our 12-unit apartment building 99 yards from the wide white-sand beach in Pompano Beach. We bought the property from…
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Sir Anthony Hopkins Surprised Me
Anthony Hopkins is one of the world’s greatest living actors. He’s probably best known for his portrayal of Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs (for which he won an Academy Award), its sequel Hannibal…
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J’s Amazing Early Success With Her Little Business: Will She Move Her Business Into Stage Two?
I asked J how her business was doing. “Very well, actually,” she said. “I’ve got all the customers I can handle now and I’m still getting inquiries even though I’ve stopped advertising. J is a “nail…
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Briefs
“Is sweating healthy?” Never one to be without an answer, I said, “Yes!” And then, “At least I think so.” And then I looked it up. It turns out sweating is useful but it’s not healthy in the sense that it will…
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Starbucks: a Great Company, a Great CEO, an Overzealous Mission Statement
Starbucks is an amazing success. And CEO Howard Schultz no doubt deserves much of the credit. As Travis Bradberry wrote in Entrepreneur Daily, “While many factors contribute to Starbucks’ immunity to economic…
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COLLECTIBLE WATCHES
An Australian reader wants to know: I know Mark has bought nice watches in the past, but has also said that a Casio can be just as good. If the subscriber is interested in luxury accessories to wear, a part of…
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The Time You Spend on Your Smartphone: Gold, Wood, or Poison?
There are basically three kinds of activities that you can choose to spend your time on: Golden – meaning activities that improve you Wooden – meaning activities that have no apparent effect on you Poisonous –…
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76 Million Baby Boomers Abscond To Fiji After Draining Nation’s Social Security, Medicare Accounts
From the Onion WOODLAWN, MD—Arriving en masse to the Pacific island nation after fleeing under the cover of night, 76 million baby boomers reportedly escaped to Fiji on Friday after completely draining the…
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Sympathetic and Vulnerable in the Windy City
What the hell, I thought. Let’s try a yellow cab. Surely they’ve improved by now…We arrived in Chicago a bit after midnight last night. Having taken an Uber Black from Newport Beach to LAX four hours before, I…
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