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Creativity will save the world

February 25, 2010

Creativity will save the world. It already has, once. When times are tight, only creative thinking can help prosper. Times are tight again. The same old thinking isn’t going to work for us. And everyone has been broken a bit. So you have to do things differently in order to survive. Michael Bungay Stanier does [...]

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You’re Not

February 22, 2010

You’re not what you could be. You’re not what you should be. You’re timid. You’re insecure. You’re going to figure it out. You’re going to give gifts to others. You are the change you want to see in everyone. You are not afraid. Ha, just kidding. Go laugh at someone. It’s fun.

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Who’s your Tyler Durden?

February 20, 2010

Motivational books are mostly ridiculous, as is nearly anything written by a self-proclaimed life coach ((Escape From Cubicle Nation, by Pam Slim, is a worthy exception)). But why would anyone capable of doing great work need inspiration from a book solely designed to do so? Don’t great artists get inspired by more everyday things like [...]

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Being your best

February 12, 2010

We only run our fastest when we quit worrying about how to stop. We do our best when we quit worrying about how not to. We’ll never do our best if we keep ourselves under control, if we never compete against those greater than us, or we’re never in over our head. Doing our best [...]

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Escape from Cubicle Nation

February 8, 2010

Cover via Amazon Yes, I received a copy of this book for free. Yes, I left it in NYC and then purchased the audiobook and listened to it. Once. But I never wrote anything about it. I never followed Pam Slim‘s rules, I never bothered to make a plan and I didn’t think to take [...]

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How far have we come?

February 7, 2010

In just one generation, we’ve gone from this: To this: Holy shit. I am horrified, fascinated and inspired by this. What drove people to create back in the days of the Big Bopper? Could they have imagined something like the visuals of a Lady Gaga video? What did they see with their imaginations back then? [...]

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Honesty is like barefoot running

January 22, 2010

Honesty is not truth, but we think it is. Honesty is not factual, but we often hope it is. Honesty is not hard, but we tell ourselves that. Honesty is the lack of lying. It’s the removal of typical social barriers, half truths and white lies we tell at parties to people we don’t know. [...]

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