Why you shouldn’t tell people your goals.

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How many times have we sat in solitude and then…BOOM! inspiration ,a brilliant idea pops-up, a new goal, a new venture that you want to take on and you’re so excited because of these new insights that you want to share it with the world. Now if you’re anything like me, you probably want to get it […]

How To Find Clarity When You’re Stuck.

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Questions Can Give Us The Insight We Need To Move Forward. Do you ever get stuck? Do you ever have times when you’re working hard, doing all the right things and still you can’t seem to make progress? If you’re an entrepreneur, a creative or you’re simply trying to branch out into new areas then I’m sure you’ve […]

This Essential Experience Increases Your Confidence And Creative Ability.

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In 2007, I was 21 years old and I was sitting in Philly’s Pizza in Beverly Hills. I was on my lunch break. Every day I would get two slices of pepperoni and olives and read. That day it was a re-read, a chapter in 33 Strategies of War about the Battle of Marathon. There was a […]

10 Things The Corporate World *Didn’t* Teach Me.

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I’ve just left the corporate world. It’s been seven years and I don’t regret a single second of it. You’d think I would have learned everything there is to know about business in the corporate world. I didn’t. There were a lot of gaps which I luckily was able to fill in during my entrepreneur […]

I’m A Supposed Influencer. Here’s Why You Should Be Cautious Of This Title.

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The last five years have seen explosive growth in social media engagement. There’s LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and many more places to build a ‘personal brand.’ The word influencer is thrown around like “if you’re not one then you’re a failure.” There’s no real unanimous agreement on what actually makes someone an influencer. Too many of […]

Introvert or Extrovert? Here’s How to Boost Your Productivity.

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Why our personality types affect the way we work. As soon as you step into an office, it’s easy to see that each person has his or her own style of working. Some people naturally gravitate to others and always seem to be in groups. Others are much more efficient if they work at home or […]

Don’t Stop Procrastinating, Just Get Better at It.

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How to channel a bad habit into something that actually makes your life easier. If you ask Frank Partnoy, a professor at Berkeley Law School and the author of Wait: The Art and Science of Delay, procrastination has gotten a bad name. “The reality is everyone is procrastinating… all the time,” he says—himself included. Partnoy’s philosophy is this: […]

To Find a Better Solution, Ask a Better Question.

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Stuck on a hard problem? The director of MIT’s Leadership Center says you might just need to reframe it. Trace the origin story of any creative breakthrough and it is possible to find the point where someone changed the question. I have seen this as a longtime student of innovation; the stories in that realm […]

The truth about digital nomads (and working from the beach).

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Is 100 percent remote work really that great? This was it. Amir was ready to embark upon the journey of a lifetime. After breaking up with his girlfriend, he decided to trade the comfort of a traditional job for the thrill of remote work in Taiwan. Like many millennials, he felt disillusioned by the prospect of working for […]