Curiosity Chronicle

When I was 12 years old, I tried out for a baseball all-star team in our area.

I really wanted to make this team. The tryouts were my first adventure beyond the confines of my small town. An opportunity to see how I stacked up against kids from all around the state.

When the results came out, the coaches called my house.

They were taking 16 players for the team...and I was the 17th on the list.

I was devastated...

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The most famous sculpture in history was almost never created…

In 1464, the Opera del Duomo—the committee overseeing the cathedral in Florence—commissioned a massive statue to adorn the cathedral’s roofline.

They sourced a single, 17-foot block of marble from the quarries in Carrara, Italy.

A sculptor named Agostino di Duccio began work on the project, but after a short stint, he backed out...

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A few weeks ago, I had the unique opportunity to attend a small author’s retreat hosted by Atomic Habits author James Clear.

To be honest, it was a bit of a ”pinch-me” moment.

I was in a room with a group of 15 authors I’ve long admired, who had collectively sold tens of millions of books and left an indelible mark on the world with their ideas and insights.

We were each asked to share something that had been working for us, and once I shook off the feeling of imposter syndrome, the thing I decided to share was my framework on opportunity selection.

It sparked a deep dialogue and clearly resonated with the group—so I want to share it with all of you today...

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A group of kindergarteners outperformed the CEOs, lawyers, and MBAs.

The way they did it has a lesson I've never been able to forget.

While in college over a decade ago, I watched a ​TED Talk​ by a famed designer named ​Peter Skillman​ about an experiment he conducted in which groups of participants were given a challenge...

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My entire life changed when I realized that I would never want to trade lives with the people I read books about.

Allow me to explain with a story about the richest man who ever lived.

In the early 1500s, an enterprising German financier named Jakob Fugger rose to prominence on the European continent...

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