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Raptitude’s archives now have over 250 articles. Here are your favorites, and mine.

Reader Favorites:

The ten most popular articles last year (2012)

  1. 40 Belief-Shaking Remarks from a Ruthless Nonconformist
  2. 88 Important Truths I’ve Learned About Life
  3. Why we f*ck
  4. How to Make Trillions of Dollars
  5. What I discovered when I went vegan for 30 days
  6. 9 Mind-Bending Epiphanies That Turned My Life Upside-Down
  7. How to Keep Bad Moods From Taking You Over
  8. 28 More-than-just-clever remarks from one of history’s great smartasses
  9. The One Ingredient Necessary For Accepting Yourself
  10. Most lives are lived by default

David’s Favorites:

as of January 2013, in no order.

I Don’t Want Stuff Any More, Only Things

What Passion Will Buy You

A Day in the Future

On being under the influence at Ikea

Who You Really Are

Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed

Our Lives Are Not What We Think

The Decapitation of Douglas Harding

How to Be Right All the Time

You are another bull in the china shop

Die On Purpose

What is The Ego Anyway?

I’ll update this every now and then – D.


by David on September 23, 2009
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