Ben Aldern

Think fast. Act fast. Be fastest.

You’re blind to the iPad’s value

As everyone and their mother knows, yesterday Apple launched their ultrahyped tablet and called it the iPad. Your reactions are coming in hot and heavy and the majority make me mad. Here are the traps you fall into.

Abstraction

Everything around you is very high level. It becomes more interesting when you look at what created it.

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Guess… but you have to be right

How many risks do you take every day when you could make a much safer decision and not come out any further behind?

Trust who you were. You were smarter then.

Don’t question your plans. Trust that you put yourself on the right path.

How to curve your life

What if every day you take steps to follow your passions and stay committed to making it work? There’s no disconnect between where you are and where you want to be. There’s only you doing what you want, becoming a unique person, and enjoying your life.

Best days

If it’s too hard to swallow “live like there’s no tomorrow” try “live like these are the best days you’ll see”

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Go big or go home?

What if you graphed the gutsyness of the decision against the mindblowingosity rating of the outcome? Here’s my guess.

Too much cleaning

Tuning and organizing something in your life to 100% takes time. It’s important to assess whether you’ll get that much more time back or if you should leave it at 95% and move on.

Why I take the 1

Take the time to smell the flowers

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    Through this blog you can follow my progress towards starting a consumer automotive company and a race team. I relentlessly pursue that goal and, let me assure you, it's exciting.

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