Because many people have more than enough resources, but it doesn’t mean they will leverage it. One of the clearest examples of this is young people, students who have twice as much intelligence as other kids, but the other kids end up succeeding because they have fives times as much…

When you just do it daily. You know whether you wrote today or you didn’t because the process to get to publishing is so palpable in emotion and effort that you won’t forget that you did it, that you put in the work for the day. But you’ll certainly know…

Completing Running Marathons While training to run 21 km in blazing tropical sunlight with humidity as thick as a steam room, I heard advice from a former Marine to help extend our endurance. The trick wasn’t to demand that we endure the remaining entirety of our run. …

The least inspiring majors (and thereby students) I consistently encounter as a college admissions consultant are the ones who want to major in Business and Economics majors. It’s a default for students who have no deep interests or genuine curiosities about the world that they’re willing to take action upon. …

We emphasize the significance of the first draft so much that we never even complete a first draft. Instead, we expect perfection. But really our goal should be to get to the second draft as fast as possible, but only so that we can get to the third draft and…

Whether you’re running a mile or a marathon, each distance will require a set amount of steps. …

It’s a whole lot easier to keep pushing forward instead of questioning if you’re moving in the right direction. You only have to focus on the micro and do what you’ve been doing, what’s most familiar, remain in the narrow view of your comfort zone. As much as I’ve applied…

Taking the result for granted. Thinking that the result inherent. That it’s innate. That just because you’ve always received praise that somehow your greatest ambition is guaranteed just for being you. In a word: hubris. After working with a multitude of students apply to college and witnessing who gains admission into the most selective…

The way we are tested on reading in traditional schooling has failed us, even when we earned A’s on reading comprehension exams. It’s quite easy to remember information you read, but the real measure of comprehension and — perhaps more important — courage and conviction is applying what you read. …