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Why some ideas stick, and others disappear?

in Creativity, Success on 08/02/20

Chip Heath & Dan Heath, authors of Made to Stick, are interested in how effective ideas are constructed—what make some ideas stick and others disappear. In this way, they tell us that what stick is systematic creativity. Highly creative ads are more predictable than uncreative ones. It’s like Tolstoy’s quote: ‘All happy families resemble each other, but each unhappy family is… View Post

The art of learning

Mastering New Skills: The Art of Learning

in Reads on Better Living, Self-improvement & Personal Growth on 31/01/20

The Art of Learning is not about the story of a prodigy, but about how to pursue excellence through a love for the process of learning (or also called deliberate practice). To walk a thorny road, we may cover its every inch with leather or we can make sandals. Approaches to learning The author of The Art of Learning thinks that anybody can… View Post

The difference between Conscious Mind and Subconscious Mind

The Difference between Conscious Mind and Subconscious Mind

in Self-improvement & Personal Growth on 12/01/20

“You are victim of the rules you live by”—Jenny Holzer. Conscious Mind vs Subconscious Mind Humans have a conscious mind and a subconscious mind. The conscious mind is all the things you are currently aware of and thinking about. It contains all the thoughts, memories, feelings, and wishes. This also includes our memory, which is not always part of consciousness… View Post

Home Again

LinkFest ~ Best Reads on Writing, Screenwriting & Self-Publishing: Home Again

in Reads on Writing & Self-Publishing on 22/03/18

Alice: You know I’m forty, right? Harry: I knew that, like ballpark. –Home again, 2017.   WRITING Script Classics: Everything I Needed to Know About Character Development I Learned From a Fish | WritersDigest.com Characters in Cars Thinking, or, How to Deal with the Passage of Time | WRITERS HELPING WRITERS® Should Your Main Character Be Likable? |  Writer Unboxed Fizzle or Sizzle? How… View Post

Matrix

3 Factors You Must Consider When Choosing A Mentor

in Self-improvement & Personal Growth on 16/03/18

Morpheus: Neo, sooner or later you’re going to realize just as I did that there’s a difference between knowing the path and walking the path. —Matrix, 1999.   As you know, the alchemy’s goal was to find a way to transform stones into gold. That’s why alchemists used to search for what was known as the philosopher’s stone—a substance that… View Post

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