This is a guest post by David Patrick Green, professional actor and creator of HackHollywood.com.
I’m proud to say that I’m an actor and I’m also proud to say I have accomplished what few people on the planet have accomplished. I have had several roles on top ten TV shows such as CSI, ER and Battlestar Galactica, which means I can do the Comi-Con Circuit and sign autographs for money for sci-fi fans…strange but true.
The reason for this post is not due to the fact that I’m a television actor, but more due to the fact that only a few short years ago, at the age of 40, I had no clue how to get onto television. But I figured it out, and turned it into a thriving membership site and a series of Kindle Books on How to Become a Famous Actor. I believe I can teach anyone to start a similar membership site if they have a passion and some experience in a competitive, skill-based field, whether it be race car driving, accounting, or underwater welding. Read the Rest of the Article >
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Just over a year ago, I knew exactly what I wanted to get out of life…but I had no idea how to get it. What I wanted was to be a successful musician in the UK with a Top Five single in the charts, my song played on radio and my story in the newspapers–but I didn’t (and still don’t) have is a manager, an agent, a radio plugger, a PR person, or any of the other things people say you need to succeed in music. I didn’t even know how to produce my own music without outside help, and I never played live because I preferred uploading YouTube videos where I could spend time getting it right.
Two months later, my song “Forever Yours” was #4 in the UK on Christmas Day during the highest-selling singles week of the year, having sold 100,000 copies globally. I was listening to my song played out on national radio as a Top Five track (sending Coldplay down to #5) and I broke a Guinness World Record for the highest-charting single ever by an unsigned artist. Read the Rest of the Article >
Welcome to the newest episode of the Hack The System show!
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The Hack The System Podcast is your access to interviews with the world’s foremost experts on blogging, lifestyle design, traveling, and life/system hacking. In short–you’re going to learn how to kick ass.
In this episode, I sit down with a friend I met in Colombia, James Swanwick. An Australian now based in the US and Colombia, James is an anchor on ESPN’s SportsCenter and author of Insider Journalism Secrets and Become a Celebrity Journalist (and he wears a few other hats, too). He has interviewed celebrities like Michael Douglas and Nicole Kidman, and shares the secrets of how he did it in his books.
James and I are very close friends, ever since we first met in Medellin, Colombia. James is also my Bet Switch Mechanism partner — I’ve paid him for multiple purposes when I cheat on goals. Most recently, $25 for eating a bag of Skittles. Read the Rest of the Article >
This is a guest post by author of Hacking Your Education, founder of UnCollege, and entrepreneur Dale Stephens.
What’s happened to your self-improvement list since the start of a new year has come and gone? Maybe your bullet points include joining a local gym, swearing off simple carbs, and purchasing a copy of Anna Karenina. Whatever it might be, your list probably also includes learning something new, like speaking Spanish, coding websites, or deciphering American politics. But how many of us resolve to learn how to learn? To improve our efficiency and retention? To learn the skills of meta-learning?
Reliving the agony of sitting through long lectures and slogging through dense textbooks seems masochistic and perhaps futile, because really, how many of us remember trigonometric functions or the Magna Carta?
What most people don’t realize is that learning itself is a dynamic process that we can improve and whip into shape, just like our physical fitness. The neuroscience of learning seems complicated: initial stimuli must survive rigorous triaging to pass through short-term, intermediate, and working stages to reach long-term retention. Read the Rest of the Article >
Today, I’m coming at you from London, UK. (Are you in London? Come to my meetup on Tuesday) About a month ago, I left my cozy apartment in NYC to start traveling in Europe—starting off by lecturing at a travel conference in Milan.
On February 15, I gave a short talk entitled ‘How to Make a Story Go Viral’ at the BiT Tourism Conference in Milan. But it wasn’t just any lecture—it was my first talk in Italian.
You probably know that I am an avid language learner — I spent 2008-2010 learning two languages a year (I speak five presently). I talk about how to learn languages in this post on ZenHabits, “How to Learn a Language in 90 Days.” Brian also recently wrote a guest post about how he used my methods to learn German. Read the Rest of the Article >
