1: In the 1980s, Microsoft founder Bill Gates began secluding himself for a week each year, cutting off communication to dedicate time solely to reading and thinking.

He called it “Think Week.”

It was his time “to be creative and push his thinking with new depth and breadth,” Sahil Bloom writes in his book The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life.

“It allowed him … continue reading

1: Stanford professor Dr. Carol Dweck and her colleagues administered a nonverbal IQ test to two groups of adolescents

Afterwards, one group was praised for their intelligence (“You must be smart!”).

The other was praised for their effort (“You must have worked really hard!”).

The researchers then administered a second test with a harder set of problems.  

“The intelligence-praised children performed worse,” Sahil Bloom writes in his book The 5 … continue reading