Ideas Archives | The Unconventional Route

How to Stop Lying to Yourself and Making Excuses

Lying to yourself and making excuses turns you into an easily-offended, deluded drain on society. Here’s how to stop.

Self-justification is your over-protective mother of an ego coddling your feeble, fragile identity. Here’s how it works, with examples.

Warm up your creativity, spark your curiosity, and get unstuck from your status quo with these thought starters on a variety of topics.

Time logging seems tedious, but can produce incredidble results. Here’s a time log example for a regular day in my life.

Move over Martha. Follow gathering guru Priya Parker’s counterintuitive advice for throwing memorable dinner parties with friends instead.

New things to try to give your life a fresh new makeover. Some are easy and low-risk. Others are super high risk, but equally rewarding.

How much toilet paper is enough for wiping after peeing? What’s the cleanest, quickest, most conscientious way? Let’s find the answer.

A curiosity-inducing list of unconventional ideas and extraordinary things you may not have considered but may want to try.