Here’s Why House Prices Are So Expensive — It’s Not the Reason You Think

Here’s Why House Prices Are So Expensive — It’s Not the Reason You Think

Homes used to be affordable, here is the real reason why they increasingly aren’t. Any person who has desired to purchase a home will attest that doing so is becoming increasingly difficult. The question is, why? It’s complex is the answer. To explain, firstly, if you look at the data, it would seem that the…

The Labor Market Is Broken in Almost Every Conceivable Way
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The Labor Market Is Broken in Almost Every Conceivable Way

Adapt or die. It’s a phrase I’ve been hearing for years, and usually in reference to someone’s career or trade. Typically, it’s spoken by a born-on-third-base type with a degree of arrogance while they talk about a “right-sizing” or “restructuring.” As much as I hate to admit it, they’re usually right. You don’t, for example,…

50% of What You Learn at Age 20 May be Outdated by 30. Here’s a Plan to Stay Ahead.

50% of What You Learn at Age 20 May be Outdated by 30. Here’s a Plan to Stay Ahead.

#1. Living = Learning Centuries ago, you could survive by learning everything you needed to know in your youth. A few years of good education and you were ready for practically anything. Not anymore. In the fall of 1971, the first ever email was sent by a computer scientist. Regular people who lived at that time…

12 Little Habits That Create Massive Results — Steal Them to Transform Your Life

12 Little Habits That Create Massive Results — Steal Them to Transform Your Life

Great Things Don’t Happen In an Instant As the popular adage goes, “Rome wasn’t built in a day.” Great things don’t happen in an instant. They occur as a product of a progression of little wins that are strung together and compounded over time. Stephen Covey once said, “All things are created twice. There’s a…

Can You Really Master A Skill by Learning For One Hour a Day?

Can You Really Master A Skill by Learning For One Hour a Day?

The traditional learning model we grew up with can be poisonous for real-life learning. Hard tests, letter grades — those things translate terribly outside of school. We have been conditioned to have an all-or-nothing mindset about becoming good at something. However, self-directed learning — and really most learning in life — defies the A to…