It isn’t money, success, fame, or following your passion — For over 80 years, Harvard’s Grant and Glueck study has tracked the well-being of two demographics: 268 graduates from the batches of 1939–1944 and 456 poor men growing up in Boston since 1939. Since pre-World War II, they’ve painstakingly scrutinized blood samples, performed brain scans, collated surveys, and actually interacted…

They can do the same for you if you stick to them for long enough — There are tons of cliche habit articles floating around the internet. This is not one of them. I’ll share with you 3 habits, just three — the only ones I’ve consistently stuck to for years and reaped tremendous returns. Like most other articles, I could throw in 7 or 12…

Playing ping-pong with my body weight taught me the intricacies of sustainable weight loss — at the cost of serious mistakes. — Skinny fat. Flabby. Anorexically skinny. And now ripped — I’ve been them all. Playing ping-pong with my body weight taught me the intricacies of sustainable weight loss — at the cost of regrettably grave mistakes. These common mistakes derail the fat loss of thousands planet-wide daily.

Here are 4 way better alternatives to save your time — Albert Einstein once said, “What’s right is not always popular and what’s popular is not always right.” With books, this couldn’t be truer — while cheap romance scripts sell like hot cakes, philosophical works of genius are obscure. Self-help is no exception. Mainstream books of mediocrity have shoved the true…

You can’t run away from yourself — Over the past 6 years, I’ve reinvented myself beyond recognition. Building a strong and aesthetic physique. Going from pant-pissing shy to smoothly wooing the ladies. Overcoming my terrible stutter to become a charismatic conversationalist. But I still have neck-deep insecurities and occasionally experience crippling self-doubt. The worst of such negativity…

The secret lies in G-flux — Be it intricate roadmaps of bulging veins or muscle fibers rippling underneath a T-shirt, you feel like a demi-god when you’re ripped. The best and most mind-boggling part is how I’m NOT: On any sort of diet Tracking my calories Limiting my food choices Even with the most conservative estimate…

Waking up early isn’t one of them — Of the 412 articles I’ve published so far, over half are on self-improvement — averaging 5 minutes each; that’s 16+ hours of content. But even such an encyclopedic mass reduces to only a few core ideas. It’s the dirty little secret of self-help writers—we rehash the same ideas and insights…

August 8th edition of the Ma(n)ximize newsletter — Since I started training Muay Thai, I’ve lost a fair bit of muscle — but I still get compliments on my physique. The latest was a guy at the gas-filling station looking for tips to “beef” up his shoulders. …

August 3rd edition of the Ma(n)ximize newsletter — As we’re panting like galloping horses, “Pair up! 30 Cossack squats each side! Quick!”, screams our coach. As we struggle to 20, “Let’s take a 5 second break”, I plead with shaky legs but my friend goes, “At 25! Grind on!” 25 in and I don’t want a break —…