From the monthly archives:

July 2009

Pre-Ordering Starts Today

by Jeff Bollow

A quick post, and a quick update.

You can now pre-order Phenomenal: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy.
We’ve set a new target release date.
We’ve got a status report below.
We’re making some changes to the offer.

I’m happy to report that things are moving along nicely.  When you commit yourself to a project and really dig in your heels, the most [...]

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Park it Yourself, Metallica-Breath

by Jeff Bollow

Long ago, I said one of the most ridiculous lines in the history of teen comedy movies. (The line was the title of this article).
Funny enough, I’ve always been shy about it. I’ve never talked or written about it until right now. I always glossed over it, half pretending it never happened, always aiming to [...]

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Rethink Your Think Time

by Jeff Bollow
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Today’s post is very short (for me).
Over the past week, I’ve written over 15,000 words for this website.  And I haven’t published any of them.
Something has suddenly become very clear to me:
I’m thinking too much.
About the wrong things.
And it’s taking time and energy away from what’s most important: My book.

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Twitter is the Borg

by Jeff Bollow
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Your short attention span is going to kill you.
You’re being brainwashed.  Sucked dry of all individuality.  Twitter is destroying your ability to think for yourself — by training you to act before you think.  And it’s only just begun.
In this article, I’ll show you:

Why Twitter is the future,
Why resistance is futile, and
How you can beat [...]

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Prove Yourself

by Jeff Bollow
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Dear Jeff,
Nobody cares.
They just don’t give a damn about what you’re doing.
But here’s a secret: They’re right not to.
I know, I know.  You have moments of fear and frustration. You’re putting in all this work — creating thought-provoking articles that tie into a larger picture.
Doesn’t matter. Nobody cares.

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Why Optimism is the Ultimate Survival Skill

by Jeff Bollow
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You are capable of extraordinary things.
But if you haven’t yet achieved those extraordinary things, it’s because there’s one survival skill you haven’t mastered yet:
Optimism.
We don’t usually think of optimism as a survival skill, but that’s exactly what it is.  In this article, I’m going to show you precisely why it’s a skill… and why it’s [...]

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1,000,000+

by Jeff Bollow
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This blog is called The Phenomenal Experience.  Let’s make it worthy of its title.  Let’s raise the stakes.
In the previous post, I showed you how to accurately predict the future.
In this post, I’m going to stick my neck out.  First, I’ll make a “Basic” prediction about my own future.  Then I’ll show you my rationale [...]

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How to (Accurately) Predict the Future

by Jeff Bollow
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Human beings live a linear existence.  We travel in one direction through time — from the past, through the present, toward the future.
So conventional wisdom says that the future is impossible to predict.  Its says the future is unknowable because it’s not here yet.
Conventional wisdom is wrong.

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