Category: Creative Processes
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Collect the dots before you connect the dots
Steve Jobs’ said this to Stanford, and the world absorbed it as its motto. “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards,” he said, to eager students, pushing them to not over-plan their life, and take it as it comes. This idea of connecting the dots is not new – it…
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Millennials, the internet, and a history of double identities
Snapchat, BeReal, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, Substack – the list of the places where I am regularly present on, is endless. I share photos, gifs, videos, texts of all manners, freely, flowingly, trusting, expressing (even sometimes when I know we should not). My opinions, however silly, stupid, profound, lame, uncool, cringe, unpopular, unrefined, go…
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Day 1: #1000WordsofSummer
Stream of consciousness writing is hard work. You risk sounding dumber thank you want to be perceived.
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Appreciating my sparring partners
Here’s how sparring partners help you take action faster, and achieve your goals.
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In unpaid praise of Tiny Change
Good planners must go beyond being a record of your task list; and help you as a life coach does.
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Returning from a sabbatical
Sabbaticals from work are amazing. The real challenge is to return from them. Here are some ways to!
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Find your voice as a writer
We focus too much on our IQ to become better writers. Here’s how to access your EQ and channel it for your art.