Reader Binbin writes in to ask what advice I would share with my 18-year-old self if I could go back in time. If you’re recently out of high school, or any stage in your life really, and you want to break free and explore the world, here is the mindset I would recommend to get started…

In which I relate the story about the time I went to church, they talked about converting Muslims for Ramadan, and I decided I had to save humanity from religion and ask everyone, “Hey, can’t we all just get along?”

There always have been and always will be a small subset of the population who lead remarkable lives. For them, there is no luck but that which they make for themselves. Learn to cast your net wide and take a proactive role in opening your life up to opportunity.

I believe that over the last year I’ve figured out the central principle that will lead to true prosperity in life—the “Secret” as some people have called it. Seeing as how I’ve been on my annual vacation with my family, this is all sort of stream-of-consciousness, but I thought it important enough to share even before my ideas are fully [...]

Our beliefs about what we are and what we can be precisely determine what we will be…. What we believe to be true, what we believe is possible, becomes what’s true, becomes what’s possible…. Many people are passionate, but because of their limiting beliefs about who they are and what they can do, they never take the actions that could [...]