It’s easy to look at a job posting and think we aren’t qualified. It’s natural to want to share something new and think we aren’t worthy. It’s just human nature to look at ourselves and think we aren’t enough But if we don’t believe in ourselves, who will? Go into the interview believing you deserve […]
A Professional Or An Artist?
“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist” Pablo Picasso There’s a difference between professionals who simply paint as their teachers taught them, or artists like Picasso that redefine the standards. We have a choice to go farther than our predecessors and take the road uncharted with our experience. […]
Where’s Your Attention?
Daniel Kahneman, a researcher at Princeton, conducted a study where he gave participants a simple task. At the sound of a rhythmic pacer, memorize a string of 4 digits shown and then add 3 to each digit. He dubbed this the Addi3 experiment Simple task right? Turns out, the effort to do such a task […]
Why I Love Whiteboards
I love whiteboards. For some reason, I always feel like I’m tapping into creative juices whenever I’m using them. And I just don’t get the same feeling when I’m working out problems on pen and paper. But this goes beyond the feeling. Whiteboards are magical for one reason: They can erase easily. If we are […]
Better To Be a Beginner Than Not Play
It can be easy to stay on the sidelines when we don’t feel qualified enough for a pursuit, and yet say we still want to eventually reap the benefits. Most people want to be financially responsible, independent, and secure. But many think they’re not smart enough to properly invest and save their money. So they […]
It’s All On You Now
No one else is going to make you do it. The dropout rate for online courses for some platforms are as high as 94%. Why? Because when things get challenging, nobody really wants to force themselves to continue. Of course, when in a job or classroom, you can’t really just walk out and quit like […]
Time Dials
What do you LOVE spending time on? There can be easy answers to this like watching Netflix. But I want you to dig a big deeper to the things that make you feel fulfilled after doing them. It often tends to be a creative activity like cooking, reading, writing, drawing. Or it could be about […]
The Work Before The Work
What’s the best superfood to have for breakfast? What’s the best equipment to train with? What’s the best camera to shoot with? What’s the best pen to write with? And on and on and on. These questions aren’t irrelevant. But they are unimportant at the end of the day. It’s a unproductive way to seem […]
It’s About Your Intentions, Not Your Results
Toy Story 2 was one of the luckiest movies to be made. There was a particular instance Ed Catmull, one of the founders of Pixar and current head of both Pixar and Walt Disney Animation, describes in his book Creativity Inc. Essentially, when the release date was coming up, someone had accidentally typed in a […]
Choose Your Battles
Because unfortunately, there’s a cost to everything. Whether you decide to eat healthy or not. Be unproductive or not. Focus on this path instead of another. There’s something you’re sacrificing. That’s just the natural state of things. Sometimes the choice can be to give up something for the pursuit of something else. Kind of like […]