Ben Aldern

Think fast. Act fast. Be fastest.

The result of the last few month’s long hours

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Warmth spreads

Sometimes you’ll run into someone who’s just not into being nice. It happens. Sometimes they have a reason, sometime’s they don’t.
I locked my keys in a room today, so I went to the front desk to ask if someone would be kind enough to let me in. The lady sitting there was sporting a “helping [...]

Thank you, Seth

Thank you, Seth, for writing Linchpin and sending it to me.

Learning and growing

Learning happens when you figure out what you should do. Growing happens when you automatically do what you’ve learned.
You need both. School, books, seminars all make you a more learned person. Experience is the only thing that can make you grow. Get out there and do something cool.

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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.

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.

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.

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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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