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Thirty days hath September… All the rest have 31. That leaves 30 days left in July, the perfect opportunity to think about this short TED Talk by Matt Cutts urging us to make “small, sustainable changes” 30 days at a time: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnfBXjWm7hc] What can we do for the rest of the month? Write for ten …
“The people at the top don’t work just harder, or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.” ~ Malcolm Gladwell In Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell discusses research by K. Anders Ericsson suggesting that expertise and success are far from being just about talent. They are built slowly, from …
life = risk Several of my friends recently shared this video on Facebook, including TalentDevelop. Watch it whenever you think that failure cannot lead to success.
How many rejections does it take for you to give up? Ten? Twenty? Forty? Kathryn Stockett, author of the bestselling novel The Help, didn’t give up after even sixty rejections: “The point is, I can’t tell you how to succeed. But I can tell you how not to: Give in to the shame of being …
A friend and I have decided to read Barbara Sher’s Refuse to Choose: A Revolutionary Program for Doing Everything That You Love so that the next time we meet for coffee, we can discuss it (and our mutual experience of feeling scattered at a time in our lives when it seems we should be more …