Quote of the day: No one is asking you to be original. We’re asking you to be generous and brave. ~SETH GODIN, author of Tales of the Revolution CREATIVITY Courage outweighs originality and and perfection in creativity, Creative Something AGING The real roots of midlife crisis, The Atlantic PRODUCTIVITY Business Travelers skip in-flight Wi-Fi to increase productivity and money, Forbes… View Post
MONDAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: We Are All Confident Idiots
Quote of the day In many cases, incompetence does not leave people disoriented, perplexed, or cautious. Instead, the incompetent are often blessed with an appropriate confidence, buoyed by something that feels to them like knowledge. ~DAVID DUNNING SOCIAL SCIENCES We are all confident idiots, Pacific Standard TECHNOLOGY What’s to be done about iTunes? Tweak? Strip? Split?, MacWorld Who’s winning… View Post
The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
Quiet presents exciting discoveries on the dichotomy between introverts and extroverts. Many psychologists have been arguing over these two antagonistic concepts since Carl Jung stated the central building blocks of personality in Psychological Types Susan Cain tells us that one out of every two or three people you know are introverts, and that some of our greatest ideas, art, and inventions… View Post
WEEKEND LINKS ~Reads on Writing & Better Living: Share Your Wisdom
Quote of the day If wisdom were offered me on the one condition that I should keep it shut away and not divulge it to anyone, I should reject it. There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with. ~Roman Philosopher SENECA. MOTIVATION 7 pieces of wisdom that will change the… View Post
Stephen King Picks His Favorite Books
Author J. Peder Zane asked scores of writers about their favorite novels for his 2007 book The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books. Stephen King picks the following books: 1. The Golden Argosy, The Most Celebrated Short Stories in the English Language, edited by Van Cartmell and Charles Grayson 2.Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain. 3.The Satanic Verses, by Salman… View Post
THURSDAY LINKS ~Reads on Writing & Better Living: Highly Creative Entrepreneurs Are Rule Breakers
Quote of the day Highly creative entrepreneurs are rule breakers who don’t like to conform to norms and traditions of the industry. ~SANGEETA BHARADWAJ BADAL, Ph.D. CREATIVITY Great Entrepreneurs are creative thinkers (Entrepreneurial StrengthsFinder), Creativity at work HEALTH Shift work dulls your brain, BBC News MUSIC Spotify can’t succeed if it keeps screwing songwriters, Wired TECHNOLOGY An iPad best for… View Post
The Entrepreneurs’ mantra: Practice, Practice, Practice
It seems that a new research by Standford Professor Kathryn Shaw sheds some light over the debate on whether entrepreneurs are just born that way or can be taught the skills to start and run a successful business. The research, which examined records of 2.8 million small retailers in Texas, found that entrepreneurs were more likely to succeed the more… View Post