You’ve Been Postponing Your Goals — Here’s How to Change That
“Never ask people. Not about your work. Don’t you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?” — Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead You’re scared. You’re 16-25 years old and you’re scared because you don’t know what you want to do with your life and you’re even more scared of finding out. Or, maybe you do know what you want to […]
If You Want to Get a Job, You Don’t Need a Resume — You Need a Value Proposition
Picture this: Two people want a job at a growing startup. Person one sends in his application and resume. He’s confident, because he’s put hours into it, digging up every award, achievement and accolade to his name since high school. He’s confident because on paper, he looks like the ideal candidate. He was the captain […]
The Two Things That Trump Talent
One of the big secrets in the professional world is that talent is not the most valuable thing to clients, employers, coworkers, and investors. I’ve written before about a skill that beats talent every time. I’m going to expand on that a little bit today. A combination of two traits will win out over a […]
The Future of School (Here’s What School Should Look Like Ten Years from Now)
The following article is excerpted from our book, The Future of School, by Praxis CEO Isaac Morehouse. Want a free PDF copy of the full book? You can download The Future of School here! THE REALITY College is the dominant path for young people seeking to get into a productive career and fulfilling life. Many who […]
Is it Dangerous to Follow Your Desires?
“We abandon the most important journey of our lives when we abandon desire.” -John Eldredge People do all sorts of things without fairly considering any of the arguments that could be made against the decisions they’re making and that can be a very dangerous practice. Over the past year, however, I’ve met dozens of young […]
How I Achieved My Four-Year Goals In Ten Months
I’ve always had fairly large goals. When it came to actually accomplishing them, I wasn’t much different from many people my age. That is to say, I was getting nothing important done. I was keeping my head down and working hard to do well in school and have a “normal” teenage life. I had done well at […]
The College Mindset and the Entrepreneur Mindset: A Comparison
For the privilege of being turned into conformists, students (or their families) pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in skyrocketing tuition that continues to outpace inflation. Why are we doing this to ourselves? — Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future I had the opportunity to attend the […]
Business Partner Feature: The Morning Star Company
“Around here, nobody’s your boss and everybody’s your boss.” When it comes to interesting companies, few networks can beat the business partners with which Praxis participants have the opportunity to work. Praxis business partners are leaders and growing companies in industries like digital marketing, consumer tech, B2B tech, manufacturing, and even agriculture. The Morning Star Company is one such […]
Advice to Ambitious Young People: Just Build Something!
“I’m an ambitious young person who wants to always be moving forward in my education and career. What should I be doing?” Building something. The best thing that an ambitious young person can do at age 18, 19, or 20 is to be building something. They should be spending as much of their free time as possible […]
How to Gain Credibility Without a College Degree in Less Than a Day
Today’s post was written by Casey McGoff of Killing College, a blog for young people seeking alternatives to college and success after opting out. Contact Casey at casey@killingcollege.com. One of the toughest things about dropping out of college is figuring out how to get people to take you seriously. Most people still see the bachelor’s degree […]
How To Be Fascinating: The (Apparent) Contradictions of Interesting People
“He’s a walking contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction.” – Kris Kristofferson An aristocrat who joins a peasant revolution. An atheist who enjoys liturgical music. A janitor who makes a breakthrough scientific discovery. If these sound like they would be excellent characters for a novel, that’s because they would. We are fascinated by people who defy […]
5 Reasons Entrepreneurship Makes You a Better Person
The other day a good friend and coworker of mine coordinated an international rescue from her phone in our Atlanta office. The emergency? A boyfriend lost and dazed in a Hong Kong airport at two in the morning. The unlikely hero? A local Uber driver who circled this airport, searched the premises, and physically retrieved this poor guy. This […]
The Sleep In Your Car Test
We have a simple test for applicants to Praxis. I call it the sleep in your car test. There are people who are willing to sleep in their car to get what they want and those who aren’t. We’re only interested in the former. No, we don’t actually ask people to sleep in their cars […]
Meaningful Work is Worth the Work
“For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work.” -James C. Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t A major part of our mission at Praxis is […]
The Habit is The Way: Cultivating Success as a Discipline
Consciously developed habits that you commit to whether you’re in the mood or not give you a framework on which to base the rest of your day — if you can commit to the little things and take that small victory every day, you can commit to the larger things as well. When we look […]