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How SideChef Founder Kevin Yu Is Helping People Learn to Cook at Home

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In 2014, we built the app. What lessons did you learn growing up that you still lean on today? KY: I grew up in a Chinese immigrant family, and my parents wanted me to be a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer. But as you grow up, you find people in your life who give you validation about who you are and what you’re doing.

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The Mel Robbins Guide to Screwing Up

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In her book, The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success , Megan McArdle explains that we gain skills by practicing things because we’re strengthening the connection between the action and the reward. But if we learn from the failure and revise our actions, we might get a better result (and a dose of dopamine) on the next try.

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Leveling Up: Why Eric Siu Treats His Life Like a Video Game

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People might be surprised to learn Eric Siu—a master marketer known for his ability to transform top technology companies—has another claim to fame: gaming. Each decision he makes and step he takes is akin to leveling up—the stakes are just a little bit higher in real life. It doesn’t take long to pick this stuff up,” he says.

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Plant-Based Power with Steele Smiley

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1, 2014, Smiley adopted a 100% plant-based diet that he now believes changed his life. I think most entrepreneurs get caught up in this idea that their life revolves around them,” says Smiley. Learn more about Steele Smiley at steelebrands.com. In his mid-30s, he made his first million selling his company.

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Apprenticeships Are Making a Comeback—Here’s Why

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The term “apprentice” might conjure up images of blacksmiths training young teens in the “olden days,” or maybe former President Donald Trump on the 2004 premiere of the show by the same name. According to November 2023 data from ApprenticeshipUSA , apprenticeships have seen a 103% growth from 2014.

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5 Reasons to Question Everything

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Blame it on a grown-up world that tends to put more value on having answers than asking for them. But in my research on the power of inquiry for my book, A More Beautiful Question , I learned that asking challenging questions—of others, and particularly, of oneself—can actually fuel greater success in business and in life. “How?

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Leading with Kindness: 14 Most Charitable Celebrities

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Shaquille O’Neal learns from listening Shaq doesn’t see himself as a celeb: ‘Celebrities are all crazy.’ “I’m The only thing that I think I did right is that I always try to work harder than anyone else,” a self-deprecating Jimmy Kimmel told SUCCESS in 2014. Jimmy Kimmel was featured in the August 2014 issue of SUCCESS.

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