The Real Reason You Can’t Concentrate
“We’re not a distracted generation, but we are distracted when we’re using a web browser.”
Author: Josh Spector
How To Improve Your Day By Setting Anti-Goals
“A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.”
A 4-Step Formula To Generate Unique Ideas To Write About
“Combine ideas from your product with an idea from your general knowledge. Combining those two existing ideas results in creativity — a brand new idea.”
The Advice We Give Kids About Success Prevents Them From Being Happy
“It’s certainly good for children to have goals they’re working toward. But instead of always encouraging them to focus on what’s next on their to-do list, help...
How To Think Like A Hustler Instead Of A Sucker
“Chumps prefer a beautiful lie to an ugly truth. The sucker wants to believe certain things about life and so projects these wishes on to the real world, seeing...
What Creative Pros Wish They Knew During Previous Decades Of Their Career
“The pressure to do things quickly or have success happen right away is ingrained in our culture of instant-gratification, but really your real life is so long....
How To Deal With Failure Like J.K. Rowling
“The act of falling to the ground comes with a strange and unintended side-effect. Liberation. With nothing more to lose, we have a foundation and this foundati...
3 Things Marketers Can Learn From The Rise Of Netflix And The Fall Of Blockbuster
“There were several factors that contributed to the company’s downfall, including not understanding what business they were really in — entertainment, not retai...
David Lynch On Where Great Ideas Come From
“Ideas are like fish and you don’t make the fish, you catch the fish. Desiring an idea is like putting bait on a hook and lowering it into the water.”
How To Become As Confident As A Professional Poker Player
“She very much acknowledges that losing is a likely reality. Her expectation isn’t to win every time, but it’s to use her skill to give her an advantage over th...