As a person who spends a lot of time in the creative zone, there are two main kinds of work I do: quiet work and work with beats. Quiet work is idea stuff. It’s pre-idea. It’s conceptualizing and visioning. Work with beats is what follows. It’s “cranking it out.” It’s making it happen. I do […]
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You may have read on my Facebook page this week that I completed a draft of my forthcoming book Spendshift. Because I’ve been able to focus on writing it intensively, it took me just over two months to complete the manuscript, which is my fastest ever. I woke up the day after I saved the […]
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In my forthcoming book Spendshift, out July 1 on Amazon, I share strategies and tricks I learned as a starving student to stretch my money a long way past where it should have gone. Many of these have continued to be useful well into adulthood, but I’ve also learned that sometimes the best thing you […]
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Disclaimer: There are so many reasons why you shouldn’t read this post: You don’t have time You’ve never heard of the author It blurs in with the 1000 other blog posts and articles people will ask you to read today You should be working on some other project/life goal/meaningful activity It piggybacks off another, smarter […]
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“Be so good they can’t ignore you.” – Steve Martin “When it comes to idea generation, quantity is the most predictable path to quality.” – Adam Grant I’ve always loved the above Steve Martin quote for its boldness and sass. Its motivating in the sense that, if you feel your work is being ignored, the onus […]
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When I was working on my doctorate, my supervisor would constantly ask me a question that was as infuriating as it was useful: so what? You’ve come up with a great idea here, so what? You’ve argued this point intelligently, so what? This part is completely groundbreaking, so what? You’re way off the mark on […]
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“If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they […]
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“A talented but meek creative personality can never join the pantheon of the greats, because timidity leads to mediocrity.” – George Lois, Great Ad Man of the 20th Century Ever feel like you’re a voice in the wilderness? No matter how hard you try to spread your best ideas or work, nobody seems to be […]
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I came across the work of consultant / Stanford Researcher BJ Fogg this week, and I think I’m in love. His lab studies what it takes for people to change behaviour, and in the past 20+ years, he and his team have discovered 3 requirements present across all behavioural changes: Trigger: A specific event or […]
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Picture Sisyphus rolling his boulder up that hill every day. He knows what’s going to happen when he gets to the top, though maybe not exactly how. One way or another, that boulder is coming down again. There’s nothing he can do about it. The momentum’s too strong once he’s reached the apex. Some would […]
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