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A Ripe Time for Introverted Creatives & Entrepreneurs
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A Ripe Time for Introverted Creatives & Entrepreneurs

ByJeffrey Davis

There’s never been a better time for you to share your message and creative brilliance with the world. Imagine if Jonas Salk discovered the polio vaccine, but cowered at the prospect of receiving publicity or criticism or of appearing vain by drawing attention to himself so he decided to keep the discovery to himself, that would be…

The Brave Creative
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The Brave Creative

ByJeffrey Davis

  You can toil on a book, rehearse a talk, strategize a launch, stretch yourself to create a new product or offer or a whole new business, but you cannot control outcome. You can craft to design experiences to take people where you promised, you can have meetings to plan, and you can gather and…

Just Have Fun or Get Better?
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Just Have Fun or Get Better?

ByJeffrey Davis

A few years ago, when my first girl was two-years-old, she wanted to play my Bengali two-string dotar instrument. She plucked it. It twanged. I tried to guide her pudgy worms toward gentle strokes so it might purr, but no doing. Then, she wanted to pull out her mini-ukele. Similar deal. She set it down on her…

Prioritize Your Value
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Prioritize Your Value

ByJeffrey Davis

She couldn’t believe the one word that came up in a simple self-assessment. She had sensed it in her 20+ years of accomplishments across the globe. But the word simply was not the word she used to describe herself or the quality that most captivates people and brings them value. She might have chosen compassionate,…

Intensity Not Relaxation Inspires Creative Courage
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Intensity Not Relaxation Inspires Creative Courage

ByJeffrey Davis

“It was clear…that what kept [top performers in flow] motivated was the quality of experience they felt when they were involved with the activity. This feeling didn’t come when they were relaxing, when they were taking drugs or alcohol, or when they were consuming the expensive privileges of wealth. Rather, it often involved painful, risky,…

Buzzing stories versus your Brave Story
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Buzzing stories versus your Brave Story

ByJeffrey Davis

And I wrote every day. Because I had to. Because it burned in me. Because we just don’t have much time. Because the Waiting Room is not a place to live. Because the Waiting Room is a place where something true and brave in us can die.

Is Obsessive Genius Your Model for Mastery?
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Is Obsessive Genius Your Model for Mastery?

ByJeffrey Davis

The models of mastery that show all-or-nothing obsession are, I think, incomplete, inaccurate, and not useful for most of us business artists. What we hunger after, what we find so captivating, I think, in these stories and images of obsessive geniuses is the promise of flow – that obsessive creative or scientific state.