the art and science of finding your thing
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I read Daniel Coyle’s The Talent Code the first week of 2010, and I still think about the premise at least, oh, every single day. Hands down the most influential businessey read of my year.
Not to build it up or anything.
Premise: Remarkable talent is possible for all of us. That means you. And me. Seriously. [...]
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I think one of the surest ways to get super stuck in the pursuit of your thing is to say that the time and energy you’ve spent doing the not-thing was all for nothing.
And then get all mired in regret, pretty much the foreboding ingredient in brewing up some bitter funk, making it almost impossible to [...]
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Right now I’m shifting a bunch of things related to my work, which basically means I’m back to hot pursuit of The Thing. Even more than usual. And the ideas I’m heading toward started bringing up all of these memories of (weird) things I liked doing as a kid. (Another dose of nostalgia.)
It’s reminding me [...]
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Back from a long production shoot, and the subsequent recovery of getting Very Little Sleep. Which, being my achilles heel, usually leads to much fogginess and maybe a splattering of existential angst.
Anyway. Even though I’m always explaining the unglamorous nature of production assistanting, people still seem to get the wrong idea. So I thought I’d [...]
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I woke up this morning thinking about taking the leap, choosing your own adventure, answering your hero’s call. And that it isn’t supposed to be easy.
People say living from your heart and steering toward your best life feels like paddling downstream.
You get this image of leaning back on your raft with the sunshine on your [...]
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I’ve been obsessing thinking more about this check-y-loo habit. I’d love to bump creative time earlier and push checking e-mail and stuff later into the day. (Later than the second my eyes pop open.)
And I’m trying to be patient with myself. (Ow.) And curious.
The end of my corporate career was bad. Bad like Sunday night [...]
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Our important, intrinsic, rock-star-worthy stuff isn’t always the stuff about us that Other People value. And this is kind of a big deal. It’s one of those difference makers between a super-happy-thriving life versus a mediocre, successful-on-someone-else’s-terms existence.
But you have to believe that you get to decide which elements of your fabulosity that you cultivate. (And hear this: You’ve got plenty to [...]
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I’ve been thinking about my trajectory through the roles of Good Student, Model Employee, and All Around Team Player. And out of nowhere, Bam! Rookie Entrepreneur. Oh, the bumps in the road.
I had a pretty easy time with the transition from peppy, straight A student to highly-regarded, fast-track bound corporate employee. We’ve talked about my [...]
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This whole notion of finding (and doing) your thing: I talk and write and think about it, oh… quite a bit. One of the elements of thing-finding that receives some pretty intense pondering on my part is any emphasis on the singularity of the thing.
So yeah, there isn’t just one thing.
I’m really sorry, but it has [...]
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