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Category Archives: Creativity
Ego Is Good
From Seth Godin’s Poke The Box: Somewhere along the way, ego became a nasty word. It’s not. When our name is on a project, our ego pushes us over the hump and drives us to do even better work. Ego … Continue reading
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Tagged Ego, Greed, Poke The Box, Seth Godin, Vanity
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If You’re Not Curious, You’re Boring
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. -Albert Einstein I really believe curiosity is everything. Those who aren’t curious about the world are boring and never accomplish anything great. I can understand how people can go through … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Einstein, Curiosity, Interesting, Interestingness, Jay-Z, John Mayer, Seth Godin
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Now Is A Great Time To Be Young
It seems like every day that I hear how hard it is to be young these days. Â There’s no jobs, students are laden with debt, etc. etc. This seems like total bullshit to me. Â For example, this NY Times piece … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Creativity, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Self-Improvement
Tagged Future, Kids, Opportunity, Startup, Work
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Enjoying Museums
I visited the Leopold Museum by myself yesterday, because no one wanted to join me. Â The museum was very nice, and absolutely worth a visit if you’re in Vienna. Â It houses the largest collection of Egon Schiele’s work in the … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Creativity, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Tips, Travel
Tagged Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Leopold, Museum
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Trouble Focusing? Clean Your Workspace
This is an interesting study from the University of Princeton’s Neuroscience Institute:Â http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21228167 Multiple stimuli present in the visual field at the same time compete for neural representation by mutually suppressing their evoked activity throughout visual cortex, providing a neural correlate … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Creativity, Quotes, Self-Improvement
Tagged Clutter, Focus, Mind, MRI, Neuroscience
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Being Done
The point of being done is not to finish, but to get other things done. -Â Cult of Done That feeling of completing some big project is fantastic. Â It feels like you’ve pushed a giant stone off your chest. Â It should … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Creativity, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Quotes, Self-Improvement
Tagged Cult of Done, Finish, Finishing, Graduating, Skills
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Short and Sweet
I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. -Mark Twain Three Sentences (http://three.sentenc.es/) is an intriguing solution to a problem many people don’t even recognize exists. Â Emails are often too long, especially … Continue reading
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Tagged Brevity, e-mail, Mark Twain, Pascal, wit
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Gossip
Small minds discuss people. Average minds discuss events. Great minds discuss ideas. – Eleanor Roosevelt The explosion of mindless ‘reality’ television has talking heads decrying the state of culture and intellectualism in the United States. They point to shows that … Continue reading
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Tagged dig deeper, gossip, meaningful conversation
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The Two Device Solution
If you’ve ever been backpacking, weight is one of the biggest issues. You want to take as little as possible to make your load as light as possible. Nobody wants to lug half their kitchen and bathroom on their back … Continue reading
It’s OK to be Wrong
The late 1960’s and early 70’s was an era of contrasts: free love and government hatred; sexual revolution and the threat of nuclear annihilation; the birth of an age of technology and exploration and the threat of social and environmental … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Creativity, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Self-Improvement
Tagged Perfectionism is bad
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Don’t Piss Your Life Away
Many people have a tendency to be lazy. Â When they get home from work or school, they lounge around. Â Maybe they watch some TV, or surf the internet for a bit, cook some food, relax, watch more TV, think about … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Creativity, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Persuasion, Productivity, Self-Improvement
Tagged Time Track, Time Tracking
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Start at the Bottom
I’ve always said that talent is overrated. Â Most people can become really good at most things given enough deliberate practice. Â These photos by Stanley Kubrick, just a lowly photojournalist for Look magazine in 1949, began to show the sort of … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Aesthetics, Art, Creativity, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Photography, Self-Improvement, Style
Tagged 1949, Advice, Chicago, Cinema, mastery, Photograph, Stanley Kubrick, Story Telling
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Don’t Break The Chain
There’s no better way to become great at something than to do it every single day. Whether you want to learn to play the guitar, or become a great tennis player, or be a great standup comedian, doing something every … Continue reading
Know When To Paint, And When To Cut Off Your Ear
Your parents probably fawned over your finger paintings, or craft projects, or clay pots, or whatever crappy thing you created when you were four. Â There’s an audience for everything. Â Sometimes that audience is enormous, and sometimes, like with crappy children’s … Continue reading
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Missing the Shot
If you’re into photography on any level, you’ve missed the shot before. That one, fleeting moment that slipped by before you could trip the shutter. That perfect facial expression on your subject, or the ray of light that sneaks through … Continue reading
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