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Category Archives: Creativity
Showing Up
As you go through life, you’ll meet the people who have it all figured out. The girl who, in 8th grade, starting taking zoology classes at the local junior college because she knew she wanted to be a Giraffe veterinarian. … Continue reading
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First Principles: Mindset
The worst thing my parents ever told me was that I was smart. When they bought me a toy piano when I was four, my dad tried to teach me to peck out the notes of Mary Had A Little Lamb. … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Books, Creativity, Food For Thought
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Declare Victory or Failure
Whenever you start a project, you should have a plan for finishing it. One outcome is to declare victory, to find that moment when you have satisfied your objectives and reached a goal. The other outcome, which feels like a … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Choice, Creativity, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Leading, Quotes
Tagged Choice, Seth Godin, Success
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How to Say Nothing in 500 Words
Paul McHenry Roberts (1917-1967) taught college English for over twenty years, first at San Jose State College and later at Cornell University. He wrote numerous books on linguistics, including Understanding Grammar (1954), Patterns of English (1956), and Understanding English (1958).  Paul also wrote this essay, which … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Creativity, Food For Thought, Inspiration
Tagged Expression, Reason, Thinking, Writing
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Unreasonably Remarkable
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. – George Bernard Shaw Most of us live our lives as if we’re in … Continue reading
Posted in Choice, Creativity, Food For Thought, Inspiration
Tagged Career, Choice, Control, Creativity
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On Plagiarism
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. – Salvador Dali Or, as Mark Twain explains in more fervent prose: Oh, dear me, how unspeakably funny and owlishly idiotic and grotesque was that ‘plagiarism’ farce! As if there … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Business, Creativity, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Productivity, Quotes
Tagged Art, Writing
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Changing Tides
Digital delivery and consumption has completely changed the publishing industry. Â For thousands of years, reading was something you did by yourself. Â Unless you announced it, nobody knew if you even opened a book you bought, let alone finished it. Â Now, … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Creativity, Food For Thought, Marketing
Tagged Business, Change, Marketing
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Lazy, Weak and Dumb
People overwhelmingly think they’re smarter, stronger, more industrious and better looking than they really are. Â To some extent, this is healthy. Â If most of us realized how ugly and dumb we really were, we’d have trouble leaving the house, landing … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Creativity, Diet, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Money, Self-Improvement
Tagged Goals, Lazy, Systems
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Compared to What
It’s easy to convince yourself that you’re doing well if you compare yourself to your peers who are doing worse than you. Â Unfortunately, this is a recipe for mediocracy. Â Eventually, your self-induced laziness lets your peers catch up and then … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Creativity, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Self-Improvement
Tagged Goals, Life, Measure
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Hard Work Is Never Wasted
In school, a lot of kids ask “When will I ever need to know this?” Â Why do I need to know how to solve for x? Â Who cares whether Amenhotep or Ramesses ruled Egypt first? Â When will I ever need … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Creativity, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Psychology, Rationality, Self-Improvement
Tagged Hard, Learning, Persistence, Work
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Good Point
The only Powerpoint advice you need, from Seth Godin, reproduced in part here, in case a meteor hits his server and this gem is lost forever: Communication is about getting others to adopt your point of view, to help them … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Aesthetics, Business, Creativity, Marketing, Persuasion, Quotes, Relationships, Seth Godin
Tagged Powerpoint, Presentation, Sales, Seth Godin, Speech
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The $144,146,165 Button
Tiny changes can have massive results. Need proof? Â Three buttons in a cab can increase tips 220%.
Posted in Art, Business, Creativity, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Marketing, Persuasion, Psychology
Tagged Disproportionate Results, Persuasion
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Possibilities
We have more tools available than ever before to accomplish whatever it is we want to accomplish.  And technology changes so fast that you can expect to have access to tools you might not have even dreamed of every few years. Just … Continue reading
Sell Before You Build
Derek Sivers describes a marketing genius’ approach to writing: Marketing guru Jay Abraham, in the pre-internet days, would run classified ads in newspapers and magazines. If he wanted to write a book about something, he’d run a classified ad, taking … Continue reading
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Tagged Marketing, Writing
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Spin
[Tom Sawyer] had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it – namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. – … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Creativity, Inspiration, Marketing, Negotiation, Psychology, Quotes, Rationality
Tagged Marketing, Psychology, Spin
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