Self Sabotage, Inner Head Trash & Christmas

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Just this morning a guy told me how adding a simple upsell would have easily put tens of thousands of dollars in his pocket with 30 minutes of work. But he sat frozen in front of his computer, utterly unable to follow through on it.

It’s funny how many conversations I’ve had lately about “Inner Head Trash,” especially around Christmas.

He asked me, “How do you deal with this?…

Tea & Starbucks in the Forbidden City

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I just came back from China, where a cup of green tea *normally* costs about 25 cents. That’s the price at a typical street vendor.

But at the world-famous Forbidden City in Beijing, crawling with gringo tourists, a cup of green tea costs $4.00.

Why does it cost 16X as much in the Forbidden City as it costs 3 blocks away?