Billy Oppenheimer

SIX at 6: Intelligence Follows Interest, A Terrible Attention Span, A Disagreeable Task, C.S. Lewis’s Advice, A Way To Think of Success, and The General

SIX at 6: Completely Different Worlds, Doing Different Things, LeBron’s Success, Comparing Your Life, The Cure For Envy, and The Challenge In Life

SIX at 6: Generic Machinery, Becoming More Aggressive, The Idea Muscle, The Same Person Throughout, Morning Pages, and Always Practicing

SIX at 6: Lowering The Stakes, Bad Poetry, Coal Miners, What’s The Big Deal?, The Down-Up Theory, and Premeditated Resentments

SIX at 6: Physicalizing, The One Call, Getting It Cooking, Groundless Fears, The Spooky Basement Fridge, and

SIX at 6: In Praise Of Doing Things Inefficiently, What You Can’t Be Efficient With, And Then?, Wasting Time, The Inefficient Way, and The Issue With Speed

SIX at 6: Not Obsessing Over Tiny Predictors, Spreadable Butter, Good Songs, The Wrong Things, Tiny Changes, and Advice Nobody Ever Takes

SIX at 6: Furniture Making As Self-Making, The “Matrix” Theory, Taxi Drivers, Practicing, The Project, and The Stamp of Nature

SIX at 6: Situational Vs. Existential Problems, The Hole Inside, The Luxury Of Unhappiness, Missing Out, Cutting Daisies, and Lasting Happiness

SIX at 6: The Law of the Universe, The Kahnweiler Technique, The Picasso Technique, Dopey Ideas, Hanging in The Laboratory, and A Motto

SIX at 6: Losing Every Other Point, Crappy Rejected Ideas, Catching A Wave, Not Lingering Over A Setback, Handling The Terror, and Bumbling And Failing

SIX at 6: The Ordeal of Change, The Amount Of Enthusiasm, Doing It When You Don’t Want To, The Parts That Aren’t Fun, The Psychic Wall, and The Only Lasting Fuel

SIX at 6: A Dividing Line Between Success And Failure, Staring At A Word, The Creating Brain, A Productivity Trick, A Night of Pure Boredom, and Periods of Nondoing

SIX at 6: Ruining Breakfast But Not Lunch, Showering Off A Bad Day, Pulling Yourself Back Up, The Next Note, The Next Play, and A Prescription For Misery

SIX at 6: The Common Denominator, Tricking Yourself, Turning Every Page, From The Neck-Down, Madame Butterfly, and The Big Secret

The Common Denominator of Success

SIX at 6: Mirrored Reciprocation, Nichols’ Turning Point, Nooyi’s Mentors, Huang’s Past, Honnold’s Brain, and The Fruits of Action

SIX at 6: The Taste Gap, Closing The Gap, A Proud Failure, Staying On The F*cking Bus, The Frontier Of Uncertainty, and Being Bad

SIX at 6: Resulting, An Inconsequential Ripoff, 99.9% Of The Time, The Bullseye, The Process Of Unmaking, and The Ashes of Life

SIX at 6: Fields of Uncertainty, An Anti-Pep Pep Talk, 98.5% of Jokes, The Delusion Of Perfection, “That Won’t Work,” and The Greatest Disease The Mind Faces

SIX at 6: Surfing Through Life, Fighting The Future, The Lost Generation, Agassi’s Hairpiece, What Everyone Else Is Doing, and Getting Lucky With The Weather

SIX at 6: Start Close In, The Cab Ritual, Sounding Like Bruce, A Bird, A Brick, and Driving At Night

SIX at 6: How He Does It, The First Rule of Compounding, Planting Seeds, Getting Back To Work, Tied Down, and The Marshmallows

SIX at 6: Adopting Prejudices, An Inherited Enclosure, A Waste of Time, A Convenient Assumption, A Unique Style, and Folklore

SIX at 6: Epiphenomena, Working With Enthusiasm, The Real Project, Man’s Search For Success, Where Confidence Comes From, and How Emotions Are Made

SIX at 6: Relative Evaluations, Relative Deprivation, A Dreaded Question, A Ridiculous Comparison, What Everyone Starts With, and The Comparison Effect

SIX at 6: Necessary Selfishness, An Invented Myth, A Negligent Emailer, A Common Mistake, A Missed Birthday Party, and A Gigantic Aspect of Survival

SIX at 6: On Account of Relationships, King’s Muse, Sondheim’s Laugh, Lewis’s Eagerness, Guinzburg’s Belief, and Adam’s Lonely Paradise

SIX at 6: Swing Your Swing, The Incorrect Way You Like, Some Essential “Me-Ness,” Not Ticking Every Box, “Alaska,” and A Special Quality Everyone Possesses

SIX at 6: The Follow-Up, Staying With It, A Striking Lack of Talent, A Certain Kind of Personality, A Proud Failure, and The Second Effort

SIX at 6: The Deceptive Nature of Things, An Unusual Asset, What You Don’t See, What’s Impossible To Know, The Things That Change Your Life, and Nonchoosing

SIX at 6: Being Great Wherever You Are, Acing It Just For Fun, Acting Like A Singer, The Final No, The Frog Float, and What Chris Rock Always Tells People

SIX at 6: The Reality of What Appears Magical, Solving The Problem Too Fast, How Dylan’s Songs Got Here, Glacial Processes, Whispering, and The Big Secret

SIX at 6: The Third Chair, A Year of 365 Contributions, The Idea Of Unrealized Dreams, Cancelling Everything, The Curie’s Pact, and The Fruit Of Preliminary Work