How to Make Your Thing the Best in the World

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"Our goal was make the best behavior change resource in existence," he says. "I'm not really aiming to just get famous or something like that and just put out a bunch of stuff that might be useful for me, but not for the world" If you're doing all this time just to make yourself look good, which a lot of practitioners in the space do, then you're taking value from them, putting it into your head, to your lab. So hyper-focused, like just choosing the one thing you can be best at in the world. You can do that today. But I think what you do when I do is try to figure out the best in class for the

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How can you live your best life? What's a good definition of "wisdom"? What are some possible taxonomies of life outcomes? What are some low-hanging fruit in the realm of self-improvement? What are some useful behavior change frameworks and techniques?

All his life, James Norris has been searching for the best ways to change himself and change the world. He started as an entrepreneur at age 6 and since has co-founded or helped build 9 businesses and 16 organizations, including the premier conference for the effective altruism movement, the world's first global lifehacking event series, Southeast Asia's first social innovation hackathon series, and a university for today's Leonardo da Vincis. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin as a triple major / quadruple minor. Find more about him at jamesnorris.org and upgradable.org.

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