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Read previous issues of the SIX at 6 newsletter:

2022

May 22 | SIX at 6: The Rules, Consistency, The Personal Is Universal, Looking at the Parts, Myths, and the Four-Minute Mile

May 15 | SIX at 6: Butterflies, How To Be Exotic, Filling The Universe, Making An Inventory, Creative Maladjustment, and Seeing Everything as Fuel

May 8 | SIX at 6: What To Aim For, The Edge of the Frame, Sunk Costs, The Library In Your Head, Observing The Obvious, and David Mamet

May 1 | SIX at 6: The Highest Quality, The Great Excuse, The Center of Your Attention, Not Caring, Caring, and Playing Like Charlie Parker

Apr 24 | SIX at 6: The Reading Brain, DNA, The ‘90 Bulls, Chefs and Cooks, Striving For Perfection, and Reid Hoffman

Apr 17 | SIX at 6: Most Stories Wins, Efficient Labor, Not Following Passion, Macro-Contentedness, Floor Tiles, and Cracking Culture Codes

Apr 10 | SIX at 6: Steve Martin, Woodpeckers, The Helsinki Bus Station, The Third Peak, Andrew Carnegie, and The Value In Taking Away

Apr 3 | SIX at 6: Wayne Gretzky, Nirvana, Casey Neistat, A Paleolithic Theory of Procrastination, Going Deep, and Filling Work With Time

Mar 27 | SIX at 6: 3 Rules From Frank, Spending Energy, Napoleon’s Cupboard, Attention Residue, Ender’s Game, and Being Thought Stupid

Mar 20 | SIX at 6: Being Bad, Fly-Fishing, Deep Breathing Club, The Small Choices, Nonreligious Prayer, and Deadlines

Mar 13 | SIX at 6: Parallel Processing, Adapting to the Moon, Never Getting to Space, What Art Is, Tolerating Boredom, and Lorne Michaels

Mar 6 | SIX at 6: Word Economy, The Appetite For Action, Being Stuck, Churchill On Whistling, A Theory Borne Out By Sushi, and Re-Cognizing

Feb 27 | SIX at 6: The Happiest Person Anybody Knows, Bruce Springsteen, Second Opinions, Jerry Seinfeld, Swamps, and My Friend Buddha

Feb 20 | SIX at 6: How Emotions Are Made, Preventing Panic, Trusting The Preparation, The Miraculousness of the Pencil, Getting Past The Stranger, and A Theory of Intelligence

Feb 13 | SIX at 6: Getting to Boring, Asking the Right Questions, Creating A Sense of Awe, Note-taking, Tricking Your Brain, and Shaun White

Feb 6 | SIX at 6: Skin Thickness, Rick Rubin, Act Before You Think, Mouth Taping, Getting Lucky With The Weather, and Why It’s Better To Travel Than To Arrive

Jan 30 | SIX at 6: A Grand Unified Theory, Starting with Shit, Bruce Springsteen, The Common Denominator of Success, Seth Godin, and Passion

Jan 23 | SIX at 6: A Ghost Town Fire, The Theory of Deliciousness, Revering Great Art, This American Life, Controlling Your Thoughts, and Steph Curry

Jan 16 | SIX at 6: Wading Through Sewage, Week(s) Off, Sticking With The Banjo, Paul Simon, Vitamin C, and The Money Shot

Jan 9 | SIX at 6: What You Pay Attention To, Willful Will, Creativity, Ice Ages, Preparation, and Antonio Brown

Jan 2 | SIX at 6: Jerry Seinfeld, Leaving Work Behind, Dumb and Dumber, Trash, The Idea-Generating Magic of Doing Nothing, and Not Trying To Succeed

2021

Dec 26 | SIX at 6: (In)Ability, a Leadership Goal, Nondoing, Matt Damon, George Carlin, and a Big Key to a Lack of Anxiety

Dec 19 | SIX at 6: Unique Limitations, Oil Spills, Amnesia, Blaming the Weather, Solitude, and A Car Ride with Robert Greene

Dec 12 | SIX at 6: Pacing, Spike Lee, Mirrored Reciprocation, Coolness Under Pressure, Paul McCartney, and Falling In Love With Boredom

Dec 5 | SIX at 6: Novak Djokovic, Wind, Incubation, René Redzepi, Psychology in a Statement, and Hope

Nov 28 | SIX at 6: Viktor Frankl, Beaver Hats, Constraints, Kobe, Motorcycle Maintenance, and Mud

Nov 21 | SIX at 6: Rodney Mullen, King Solomon, Mathematicians, Enthusiasm vs Quality, Daydreaming, and Hemingway

Nov 14 | SIX at 6: Trees, Nails, Clint Eastwood, Missing It, Bumbling and Failing, and Filling Up

Nov 7 | SIX at 6: Pinnacles, John Mayer, Toenails, Short Knives vs. Jack Knives, The Good-Mood Hack, and Being Pronoid

Oct 31 | SIX at 6: Tarantino, NASA, Bus Ticket Collectors, Butter, Rule Books, and Doing The Daily Stint