Gluten Free Girl on Building a Business That Matters: Put Community First
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The 3 Reasons You're Not Good at Telling Stories
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It's happened, at least once, to everyone: You're talking to someone, maybe at work, maybe at a social gathering, and you start to tell them a story. Then, about midway through, you realize you've made a terrible miscalculation.
How to Waste Less Time in Meetings
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Isaac Asimov: 'Where Do People Get New Ideas?'
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Where do good ideas come from?
In his 2010 video on the subject, author Steven Johnson described the question as one that "all of us are intrinsically interested in.
A New Way to Learn Color Theory: With Vegetables
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When Wu-Tang Clang used the acronym C. R.
Who Pays Photographers and Writers the Best Freelance Rates?
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Freelancing doesn't mean working for free. Of course, there are times when doing work for free can be justified, especially if you have a personal attachment to the project (designer Jessica Hische advises you always do work for your mother), or if you really do believe it's the best way to gain exposure that could lead to paying work later.
How One Technical Manager Uses Photography to Succeed in Work and Play
Creative education and pursuits of side projects have both been shown to make workers both happier and more productive — but one of our CreativeLive Honor Roll students is a living example of that practice. Danny Rotondo, who works full time and is a photographer in his spare time, says his education has helped him further his artistic endeavors, and made him a better employee at his day job.
To Reach Your Goals, Have Meetings With Yourself
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There is a challenge that faces highly-motivated people, which is a constant drive to do more. Call it a feedback loop of expected achievement.
Why Making Lists Is Your Best Productivity Hack
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When surgeon and best-selling author Atul Gawande released The Checklist Manifesto in 2009, the book's mission was simple: Get people -- all people -- in the habit of making lists.
"The volume and complexity of what we know has exceeded our individual ability to deliver its benefits correctly, safely, or reliably," he wrote, explaining how a checklist, in its simplest form, could help everyone from moms to doctors to artists to scholars do their work better, by taking some of the pressure to remember every detail off of the brain, thus freeing it up to think about other things.