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Deadlines Force Creativity
Inspiration and work ethic, they ride right next to each other. When I was an upholsterer, sometimes you’re not inspired to reupholster and old chair. Sometimes it’s just work and you just do it because you’re supposed to. And maybe … Continue reading
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Tagged Creativity, Deadline, Jack White, Pain, Restriction, White Stripes, Work
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Poke The Box
Not only do I think Seth Godin’s new manifesto, Poke The Box, is worth reading, I think there’s some ideas in it that are so important I’m putting them down here so I don’t forget them. The book is only … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Creativity, Inspiration, Productivity, Quotes, Self-Improvement
Tagged Doing, Failure, Fear, Focus, Poke The Box, Seth Godin, Starting
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Change Is Good
I know a lot of people who not only fear change, but hate it. I had never really understood why. To me, change is always good. I’ve never gone through a change and said “I wish that never happened.” Even … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Creativity, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Quotes, Rationality, Self-Improvement
Tagged Change, Risk, Seth Godin
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Anxiety
Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. – Seth Godin
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Tagged Anxiety, Seth Godin
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Failure Is Good
Most people are afraid of failure. I know I certainly am at times. The problem is, failure is often the best way to learn. When you succeed at something difficult or amorphous, you usually don’t know why: a lot of … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Creativity, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Persuasion, Quotes, Self-Improvement
Tagged Failure, Mark Cuban, Oprah Winfrey, Richard Branson
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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
Posted in Advice, Art, Creativity, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Persuasion, Quotes, Self-Improvement
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
Posted in Advice, Art, Creativity, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Quotes, Self-Improvement
Tagged Albert Einstein, Curiosity, Interesting, Interestingness, Jay-Z, John Mayer, Seth Godin
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Being Owned
I’m not in show business because I don’t have to go to the meetings, I’m just not a part of it, I don’t belong to it. When you “belong†to something. You want to think about that word, “belong.†People … Continue reading
Posted in Food For Thought, Quotes, Self-Improvement
Tagged Belonging, Clubs, George Carlin, Groups, Organizations, Ownership
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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
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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
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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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Fuck You. Pay Me.
Though there’s some stuff in here I don’t necessarily agree with, a worthy watch for any creative: 2011/03 Mike Monteiro | F*ck You. Pay Me. from San Francisco Creative Mornings on Vimeo.
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Law, Photography, Psychology, Quotes, Video
Tagged Fuck You, Law, Photography
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Conservationists Want To Starve Africans
Everyone is an environmentalist to some degree. At the very least, nobody wants to shit where they eat. Even if you believe the Earth was put here solely so its inhabitants can exploit it, you don’t think it can be … Continue reading
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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You Have Not Arrived At Your Destination
“If you ever get some idea you’ve arrived at a certain level,” he says, “you should only be taking it as a cue to work harder and to push farther.” -Jack White The people I know who, from my vantage … Continue reading
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