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 […]

How email can actually enhance your productivity.

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Confession: I love email. It’s not exactly a popular opinion these days. As Don Norman said in a 2015 Fast Company story, “email is the office memo turned cancerous, extended to home and everyday life.” Google “I hate email” and you get everything from cartoons to blog posts to active Reddit threads. More drastically, some companies have […]

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 […]

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 science behind making a change that lasts.

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The best-selling productivity author David Allen called it Getting Things Done. Malcolm Gladwell, researcher and writer about the wonderful weirdness of human psychology, coined the “10,000 hour rule.” But perhaps neither method for maintaining momentum has been adopted as fiercely as an off-the-cuff remark made by comedian Jerry Seinfeld over a decade ago: Don’t break the chain. “He said […]

7 Common Words Powerful People Avoid (That You Should Avoid, Too).

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     //players.brightcove.net/2097119709001/4kXWOFbfYx_default/index.html?videoId=5315267269001 Words hold power. Some of the most powerful words are the words you use every day. These words can easily and unknowingly diminish your message and intent. Powerful people know what words to stay away from and maintain their influence and impact. Powerful people know that when it comes to language, less is more. […]