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The Prodigy Fraud
Wolfgang Mozart was composing music at five years old. By eight, he was giving public performances as a violinist and a pianist. Before his death at age 35, he produced some of the most renowned music that has ever existed. … Continue reading
Look Better and Get Better By Culling
It’s important to go back and review your old work. Just a little time away from it and you can look at it with fresh eyes. Enough time away from it and you can look at it with someone else’s … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Creativity, Inspiration, Photography, Self-Improvement
Tagged Bad, Creativity, Cull, Improvement, Old, Review, Skill, Work
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On Being Prolific
Picasso created somewhere between 50,000 and 100,000 pieces of art during his life. If we take the low estimate and assume he starting making real art at about 6 years old, this means he had to create about two pieces … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Creativity, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Productivity, Self-Improvement
Tagged Art, Business, Create, Creativity, Output, Pablo Picasso, Productivity, Prolific, Work
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The Problem With Beginning
The problem with starting any new creative endeavor is that you’re going to suck at it. Even when you become a professional, depending on your field, most of your work is still going to suck. There’s a terrible irony at … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Creativity, Inspiration, Quotes, Self-Improvement, Style
Tagged Finishing, Ira Glass, Produce, Quitting, Taste, Work
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Use Oterap’s Principle To Live A Miserable Life
Pareto’s principle states that a mere 20% of the causes produce 80% of the effects. Cool, right? People like Tim Ferriss, who made his name exploiting this principle to its fullest, have shown that you can produce extraordinary results by … Continue reading
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Tagged Effort, Oterap's Principle, Pareto's Principle, Production, Sebastian Marshall, Work
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Why We Really Loved Steve Jobs (It Wasn’t The Toys)
Steve Jobs was, by all accounts, an asshole. He was an ego maniacal, contemptuous, perfectionist who screamed at and even humiliated his employees when things weren’t to his liking. He was petty, held grudges, and went out of his way … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Business, Food For Thought, Inspiration
Tagged Dedication, Inspiration, Passion, Purpose, Steve Jobs, Work
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Slow Heroism
Some people risk their lives in briefs act of heroism. They pull a fellow soldier to safety during a gunfight, or land a plane in the Hudson after it loses both engines, or chase down the guy who stole an … Continue reading
Posted in Food For Thought, Inspiration
Tagged Change, Goal, Heroism, Inspiration, Nathan Myhrvold, Passion, Slow, Work
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Mark Zuckerberg Isn’t Mark Zuckerberg
I can’t say this more succinctly than Seth Godin, so I’ll just copy it here: “Mark Zuckerberg” has become a codeword for the truly gifted exception, the wunderkind freak of nature for whom traditional rules don’t apply. Well, sure, Mark … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Business, Creativity, Inspiration, Quotes, Self-Improvement
Tagged Genius, Mark Zuckerberg, Seth Godin, Work
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Beat Procrastination By Being Self-Centered
If you work any sort of normal job, you’re probably forced to do a lot of stuff you’re not terribly enthusiastic about doing. Paradoxically, this work can often take longer because we tend to lose focus. We stall, we procrastinate, … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Inspiration, Productivity, Self-Improvement
Tagged Boring, Job, Procrastination, Productivity, Work
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If You’re Gonna Cheat, Cheat
Some particularly limiting diets build in a “cheat day”. One day a week of utter gluttony where you can shove any and every substance you want into your face. What kind of diet would do that? Well, if you’re on … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Productivity, Self-Improvement
Tagged Cheat, Cheat Day, diet, Productivity, Tim Ferriss, Work
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More Hours ≠More Results
Energy, the capacity to work, is not a finite resource. I really want to believe this. I often get exhausted though, or sick of working on something, or drained, or just lazy. My capacity to work seems fluctuates all over … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Business, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Productivity
Tagged Capacity, Grow, Harvard Business Review, Productivity, The Energy Project, Work
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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
Posted in Advice, Art, Creativity, Food For Thought, Inspiration, Productivity, Quotes, Self-Improvement, Style, Tips
Tagged Creativity, Deadline, Jack White, Pain, Restriction, White Stripes, Work
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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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