The New Mozart is a 12-Year-Old Girl
“I love Mozart and I would have loved him to be my teacher. But I think I would prefer to be the first Alma than to be the second Mozart.” She played piano and ...
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Content Isn’t a Product, It’s a Relationship
“All storytelling begins with deciding what kind of relationship you want to have with your audience.” There are a lot of reasons people struggle to create comp...
How to Say No with Grace
“You don’t have to change what you want just because someone else wants something different. All you have to do is clarify — with grace and firmness — that your...
How to Position the Objects Around to Help You Build a Habit
“The desk, the computer on top of it, the chair you sit in, and the space they comprise are all repositories for memory. But these things don’t just store our m...
50+ Blogs That Will Make You Smarter
“If you only read the stuff that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” This one doesn’t need much of a description.
10 Ideas For The Interested This Week
“Connectivity enables transparency.” — Bill Gates
This Will Make You Feel Better About the World
“Saying things are fine doesn’t get any likes. Nuance doesn’t get any retweets. Hope is a losing strategy online. So we all keep getting sucked into this vortex...
How to Teach Yourself Anything
“For at least twelve years, you’re trained to regurgitate and apply information that’s pre-packaged for you but never trained to find that information on your o...
22 Writing Tips from Stephen King
“Stopping a piece of work just because it’s hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.” S...
How to Send Emails to Very Busy People
“The worst emails for Very Busy People are those that are written well but have no clear ask. ‘Hop on a call,’ ‘collaborate together,’ ‘would love your feedback...