Glennon Doyle told Adam Grant that the same sensitivities that drove her to addiction and suffering turned out to be the same ones that make her a good mom and artist.* Grant put the exclamation point on it with, My favorite definition of a weakness is a strength misused. Say it again. A weakness is … Continue reading A Weakness Is Just A Strength Misused
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In Which My Dog Teaches Me A Philosophical Lesson About Making Mistakes
Raven is the black one on the right. This post is about her. Zen master Raven. One of my dogs regularly walks into flights of stairs. Not up them, well, not at first at least, but into them. It’s not that she doesn’t know what to do with stairs, it’s just that she always spaces … Continue reading In Which My Dog Teaches Me A Philosophical Lesson About Making Mistakes
More Dissent And Less Dogma
Challenge people. Not to pick fights, but to explore the boundaries and move the world forward. Whether it’s challenging clients to look at new services or products, or peers to dive into new projects, or just those we care about in our lives into finding new ways of thinking - we need resistance to get … Continue reading More Dissent And Less Dogma
Sunday Music: Cause You’ve Got Soul, And Everybody Knows, And It’s All Right
How we talk to ourselves, how we think of our purpose, why we think we do or do not belong - these are the heavy, weighty, and extraordinarily beautiful concepts Soul wrestles with. I don’t care if you don’t have little kids in your life. I don’t care if you’re “too old for cartoons.” I … Continue reading Sunday Music: Cause You’ve Got Soul, And Everybody Knows, And It’s All Right
Going From Social Media To Social Media Driven Business
The modern creator's dilemma: social media is a great way to find and connect with customers, patrons, and fans. But (and it’s a BIG but), all the platforms kind of suck for monetizing your work. Everything is supposed to be… free. That’s not exactly synonymous with profitable. Plus, when we say ALL the platforms, we’re … Continue reading Going From Social Media To Social Media Driven Business
You’re Not That Great (A Motivational Post)
You’re not that great. Don’t take it the wrong way, I’m not that great either, but there’s a subtle point here. Overconfidence is a problem we - and the people we seek to serve - all suffer from. The good news is that just knowing it exists can help us deal with it. Organizational Psychologist … Continue reading You’re Not That Great (A Motivational Post)
When You Can’t Stop Stupid…
Here’s a painful feeling you might be familiar with: something is going wrong, you think, “I can fix this,” and you proceed to double, triple, quintuple, and ultimately go all-in on despite its borderline hopelessness. Been there? Turns out there’s a name for it (because of course there is). They’re called, “escalation of commitment errors.” … Continue reading When You Can’t Stop Stupid…
Want To Get Good? Offer Up The Hours
Ava at bookbear express has a wonderful post up titled “effort,” where she talks about putting in the practice to get good and stay good. This is the money quote: Here’s what I know: if someone’s much better than you at something, they probably try much harder. You probably underestimate how much harder they try. … Continue reading Want To Get Good? Offer Up The Hours
Podcast Of The Week: Adam Grant Versus Malcolm Gladwell
Man, I love a good argument. Who else starts an interview with Malcolm Gladwell by accusing him of flip-flopping on his logic from book to book? Adam Grant does. And how does Gladwell’s counter, that “Consistency is surely the lamest of all human virtues” not make you smile? This podcast is a trip. We get … Continue reading Podcast Of The Week: Adam Grant Versus Malcolm Gladwell
Learning Is The Act Of Failing On Our Way To Mastery
Shane Parish asked Seth Godin what his definition of learning was. His answer stopped me dead in my tracks: Learning is the act of failing on the way to mastery. Godin goes on to unpack it with an example of open- versus closed-book tests. In a closed-book test, you memorize and regurgitate the answers. You … Continue reading Learning Is The Act Of Failing On Our Way To Mastery