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You’re Always Allowed to do Big Work
No matter what position you’re in, whether it’s janitor or CEO, a huge part of your day is spent doing “small work”. Â This includes the clerical stuff, the scheduling, the filing, the organizing, and all the other things that just … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Choice, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Productivity, Self-Improvement
Tagged Choice, Control, Work
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Death of the Hobby
Hobbies used to exist as a way to entertain ourselves. Â If you had some extra time, you collected stamps, or watched birds, or built ships in a bottle. Â You sought out activities to stimulate your mind. Â Hobbies were an essential … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Food For Thought, Productivity, Self-Improvement
Tagged Brain, Hobbies, Work
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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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How To Make Work Miserable
From The Progress Principle: Over the past 15 years, we have studied what makes people happy and engaged at work. In discovering the answer, we also learned a lot about misery at work. … What we discovered is that the … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Food For Thought, Leading, Persuasion, Productivity, Quotes
Tagged Management, Work
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It’s Hard And I’m Just Not Passionate About It…
“It’s hard, and I’m just not passionate about it, and I’m thinking of giving up – will you tell me it’s OK to give up, so I’ll feel better about it in the morning?†It’s rarely about difficulty or enthusiasm. … Continue reading
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Tagged Hard, Passion, Perseverance, Work
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Make Yourself Redundant
There’s a lot of career advice out there that implores you to make yourself indispensable. Â Taken the right way, this is clearly good advice. Â But I’ve seen this misinterpreted any number of times. Â Making yourself indispensable or irreplaceable in terms … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Business, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Money, Self-Improvement
Tagged Career, Goal, Life, Linchpin, Work
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Ordinary People
You asked me if an ordinary person, by studing hard, could get to be able to imagine things like I imagine things. Â Of course. Â I was an ordinary person who studied hard. Â There’s no miracle people. Â It just happens they … Continue reading
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Tagged Brain, Mind, Ordinary, Possibility, Richard Feynman, Work
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Make The Secret A Lot More Trouble Than The Trick Seems Worth
Good advice for magic, and life: Make the secret a lot more trouble than the trick seems worth. You will be fooled by a trick if it involves more time, money and practice than you (or any other sane onlooker) would … Continue reading
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Tagged Life, Magic, Penn & Teller, Secret, Story Telling, Work
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How Do I Improve?
Someone wrote to me today asking how to improve their photography. Â I wrote back a short reply, and realized it is in no way limited to photography: Hi S., Thanks very much! My advice to you would be to look … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Creativity, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Photography, Self-Improvement
Tagged Better, Craft, Goals, Improve, Skill, Work
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The Tim Ferriss Falacy
We’re now deep into the fourth generation of the self-help guru.  This generation shares much with its predecessors, including fondness for the shortcut.  People like Tim Ferriss have  made their name on finding and exploiting these shortcuts, or “hacks” as … Continue reading
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Tagged Fallacy, Skills, Success, Tim Ferriss, Work
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It’s Never Easy, Even For The Great Ones
David Ogilvy was the “Father of Advertising”.  In 1962,  Time magazine called him “the most sought-after wizard in today’s advertising industry”.  He, and his eponymous advertising firm, were responsible for some of the world’s most iconic advertising campaigns, like “Don’t leave … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Creativity, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Marketing, Persuasion, Productivity, Quotes
Tagged Advertising, Copywriting, Editing, Persuasion, Work
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Nobody Cares About Your Happiness
If you’re lucky, 10 people might care about your happiness. Â That’s it. Some other people might care whether you show up for work. Â They might care whether you perform, which means they care that you’re just happy enough not to … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Rationality, Relationships, Self-Improvement
Tagged Happiness, Job, Meaning, Purpose, relationships, Selling, Work
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Everyone Else Is Smarter Than Me
If you’ve ever watched the Olympics, or professional football or basketball, you know what sheer talent looks like. Right? You know what god-given ability looks like: Usain Bolt demolishing runners in every race he enters; Michael Phelps beating the world’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Choice, Deliberate Practice, Intelligence, Skill, Smart, Work
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Life Is Always About Starting At The Bottom
Remember when you were in 8th or 9th grade? King of middle school? Big man on campus? Remember what happened just a short year later? Back to the bottom of the totem pole. You were no longer bigger than all … Continue reading
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Tagged Advice, Bottom, Hierarchy, Hustle, Life, Work
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If It’s Not Hard, You’re Doing Something Wrong
A lot of people complain about how hard their work is. Recognize that this isn’t a bad thing. In fact, not only is doing really hard work an incredibly good problem to have, it’s necessary to success. It’s hard, but … Continue reading
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Tagged Delivering Happiness, Hard, Opportunity, Tony Hseih, Work
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