Best Articles by Sahil Bloom

Resonating Articles by Sahil Bloom

1. How to Change Your Life in 1 Year
2. How to Get Lucky
3. The Power Speaking Guide
4. The Ultimate Productivity Tool
5. Life Lessons from 1,000 Years
6. The Think Day: Your Secret Weapon
   • Six thinking question* prompts I have found particularly useful (that you should steal!):
   • What are your strongest beliefs? What would it take for you to change your mind on them?
   • What are a few things that you know now that you wish you knew 5 years ago?
   • How can you do less, but better?
   • Are you hunting antelope or field mice?
   • What actions were you engaged in 5 years ago that you cringe at today? What actions are you engaged in today that you will cringe at in 5 years?
   • What would your 80-year-old self say about your decisions today?
7. Career Advice That Doesn’t Suck
   • Swallow the frog
     • Observe your boss and figure out what they hate doing (their “frog”).
     • Learn to do it.
     • Take it off their plate (swallow their frog).
   • Do the old fashioned things well
     • Look people in the eye
     • Do what you say you’ll do
     • Be on time (or early!)
     • Practice good posture
     • Have a confident handshake
     • Hold the door
     • Be kind (never gossip!)
   • Work hard first and smart later,
   • Build storytelling skills
     • Aggregating data, and
     • Communicating it simply & effectively
   • Build a rep for figuring it out
     • Do some work
     • Ask the key questions
     • Get it done
   • Show up early and stay late
   • Dive through cracked doors.
     • If someone cracks open a door that may present an opportunity, dive through it.