Self Improvement
Greatness Unrealized
Michael Hurd | 21 January 2012
Our greatness lies not in our capacity to write a check to a charity organization or to build houses for poor people. Our greatness lies in our individual willingness to create, to produce, and to use our minds.
Our greatness lies not in our capacity to write a check to a charity organization or to build houses for poor people. Our greatness lies in our individual willingness to create, to produce, and to use our minds.
How a Decision Log Can Help You Move from Scattered to Streamlined
Jean Moroney | 12 October 2011Next time you feel scattered, I encourage you to start a decision log.
Being Yourself is Practical
Michael Hurd | 1 July 2011Should I live with integrity, and risk my practical income; or should I have a good income, but compromise on my integrity?
The Cause of Calmness
Michael Hurd | 29 June 2011Calmness is easy when you fully, honestly grasp the utter weakness, metaphysical insignificance and sheer torpidity of people who actually say and believe these things.
If Addiction Is an Illness, What's The Cause -- and Cure?
Michael Hurd | 29 June 2011Just because somebody does something irrational doesn't mean it's not a choice.
Achieve Your Lifetime Goals by Thinking About Them Every Year
Jean Moroney | 27 June 2011Your lifetime goals are the things you'd like to do, either in the next 3-5 years or just "sometime."
The Secret to Doing Better Next Time
Jean Moroney | 14 May 2011The secret to doing better lies in thinking more about that failure now, even though it's a little unpleasant.
Confidence But No Competence
Michael Hurd | 12 May 2011What happens when self-esteem/self-confidence and wrong-headed thinking exist in the same person?
The Unfounded Assumption that Can Stop Logical Thinking in Its Tracks
Jean Moroney | 20 April 2011Give yourself the logical advice to generate a messy first answer, knowing that later you will clean it up and turn it into a neat, logical, final answer.
Dollars and Crosses
- Jane Orient on Quitting Medicare
- Ayn Rand’s Essay “To Whom It May Concern” Now Online
- Uses and Sources of Gold
- New Book: How to be Profitable and Moral: A Rational Egoist Approach to Business
- Democracy and Self Determination of Peoples: Euphenisms for Mob Rule in the Middle East
- Private Schools for the Poor
- Holleran on Anti-Hero Worship
- Salsman on the Anti-Capitalist Conservatives
- New Website: Checking Premises
- Job Creators: Who Do those Immigrants Think They Are?


