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His little-known ideas on improving your worklife and education, and on men's issuesSite last updated July 17, 2024
Dear Reader,
Some of my 34 books:
The just-published How to Do Life: Advice on life, work, and the future.
Careers for Dummies: The best ideas from having worked with 6,000 clients.
A Dose of Reality: An antidote to today's groupthink.
Unreal: 2-minute stories of fantasy, sci-fi, and horror
Getting to Career Success, Step-by-Step. That's my two-hour course on Udemy.
And if you're interested in consulting with me privately, click
on the Career Coaching tab above.
Featured Articles ↓ scroll down to see more
Miscellaneous
Eight Career "Truths"That May Not Be So True
Fuller version of my UC Berkeley public lecture, June 12, 2013...[Read More]
Personal Growth
What the Hell is the Meaning of Life (Revised, June 1, 2013)
An honest summary of my journey to find the meaning of life. ...[Read More]
Make the Most of a Job
Eight Keys to Making the Most of Your Job
There are only a few true keys to success at work. This article describes them....[Read More]
Self-Employment
Low-Risk, High-Payoff Self-Employment Ideas
Most businesses fail. This highly practical article shows how to maximize your chances of success. ...[Read More]
Procrastination
The Definitive Guide to Replacing Procrastination with Willpower?
This distills my 26 years of helping thousands of clients replace procrastination with willpower. ...[Read More]
Reinventing School & College
America's Most Overrated Product: Higher Education
This article explains why college is often an unwise choice, both for getting an education and enhancing one's career. It then suggests alternatives for students and parents to consider and for how colleges might improve their undergraduate program....[Read More]
Find a Career
Do What You Love and Starve?
Too often the advice to follow your passion leads to a life of poverty. This article may offer a wiser path....[Read More]
Reinventing School & College
GeneralEd.org: A Reinvented Online General Education Program
An immersive general education curriculum teaching, online, the content critical to the life well-led, taught by the English-speaking world's best instructors, from in and outside academia....[Read More]
Men's Issues
Our Approach to Men, Reinvented
Society treats men as though the feminist gains haven't existed. There's now tremendous unfairness to men. ...[Read More]
Find a Career
U.S. News' Best Careers, 2009 (I selected them and wrote the profiles)
I believe this is the best starting place for someone who's still not sure what he or she wants to be when s/he grows up....[Read More]
Land the Job
The One-Week Job Search
This highly effective approach to landing a job is based on my experience with 2,500 career counseling clients....[Read More]
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