Your brave medicine
To be a brave artist or business artist means you challenge the World of Buzz and deliver a different kind of medicine than the white noise being broadcast.
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What’s the Buzz? The Tolls of Our Digital Addictions
At age 24, Levi Felix was absorbed in the Los Angeles high-tech lifestyle, literally living and sleeping at the office and with his computer. Then his doctors warned him: With an ulcer and blood level 70 percent below normal, they…
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Publishing Predictions for 2014
It might seem foolish to make predictions about the world of publishing. But being ignorant to the trends and shifts seems even more foolish if you’re a writer, author, service provider, or thought leader. Rapid changes and disruptions in publishing…
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For 2014: Hero’s Quest + Science of Flow + Story Architecture
The Question How do we shape a meaningful life of creating, build a signature presence with integrity, and make a difference? That’s the singular question I’ve been tracking and living for most of my adult life. It turns out it’s a…
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How do you shape a meaningful, sustainable life of creating?
How do you shape a meaningful life of creating while also making a right livelihood and making a difference? That question has burned inside me for years, and I’m finally ready to share with you work that has come from…
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For New Year’s Resolution-Averse Creatives: Vision + Mastery
Gist: Vision and mastery can make goal-setting meaningful and effective for creatives. 1. WHAT DRIVES US I never make New Year’s resolutions. (I don’t feel so bad knowing that Luck Factor author and psychologist Richard Wiseman’s study points out this practice’s futility.) I used…
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The Art of Shaping Instead of Cursing Time
My four-month-old girl gawked at my gesticulating form from across the study. From her jungle-motif seat, she watched my hands as they whipped hieroglyphs – words and arrows and grids – on my new white board wall adhered to the…
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To Write: A Song of Bones – A Sunday Essay
I have had no real understanding of what bones were or which bones were which. That bone song about this bone being connected to that bone never stuck. Now I wish I could examine these cow bones and name them for you, but what’s in a name, anyway.
Name or no name, these ivory sticks play a pivotal place in the role of being a writer to me, and that – the song of bones – is what I want to drum.
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The Surprising Reason Why Jean-Claude Van Damme’s Splits Went Viral
You’ve likely heard and seen by now the Volvo ad that went viral as Jean-Claude Van Damme performs his “epic splits.” But why did it go viral? Maybe if we took a closer look at what happens to most of…
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Motivation By Seeing Impact
In study after study, situation after situation, Adam Grant observed in his book Give & Take that the teachers, entrepreneurs, and creatives who see frequently that their work makes a meaningful difference in others’ lives feel motivated to continue having even greater impact.
