How to Build A Second Brain
Building a second brain is an essential part of modern knowledge management. This process involves creating a system to externalize your thoughts, ideas, and knowledge, thus freeing up your cognitive bandwidth and allowing your brain to focus on creativity and problem-solving. By building a second brain, you’ll be amazed by just how many brilliant ideas…
What it Means to Live a Creative Life
A creative life isn’t about book deals and best-seller lists, Oscar-nominated films or Grammy-winning albums. Those things are byproducts of a creative life. It’s about acting on an impulse to express something inside of you. It’s about doing that thing you can’t not do.It’s a commitment to meaning over metrics, wonder over worry, and curiosity…
How to Increase the Quality of Your Creative Work
For every best-selling book an author writes, every Oscar winning film an actor stars in, every Grammy-nominated album a musician produces, and every Nobel prize winning discovery by a professor, there are hundreds if not thousands of hours of work that never sees the light of day, doesn’t resonate with an audience, or make it…
Why Your Goals Might be Making You Miserable
What if your goals are the source of your misery? It’s an odd question given that the internet is littered with success porn, self-help is a billion dollar industry, and we’re taught at every moment in our lives to be goal oriented. But in doing so, we fail to take into account the eternal gap…
Everything You Say Don’t Have Time for is Not A Priority
As you age, you start to value your time more. You start to look around and wonder where you’re wasting it and where you are spending it wisely. It becomes clear to you what is a priority and what is not, who is a priority and who is not, and who makes you a priority…
Being an Anonymous Critic is the Path of Least Resistance
The other day I received a harsh review about the podcast because I’ve shared personal challenges and stories with my podcast guests. This listener said he never writes reviews. But he found this so annoying; he felt compelled to write a harsh review. Critics MathAccording to what Jon Acuff all “critics math”, 1 critic +…
How Do You Bring Ideas to Life?
Chances are, as a creative person, you have dozens of ideas for art you want to make, projects you want to launch, and much more. But bridging the gap between ideas and execution can be incredibly challenging because you don’t know where to start or if you’re even working on the right idea. People who…
The Rising Speed of Execution
We are quickly moving towards an era in which it will take longer to figure out what you want to do with a tool than it does to execute your idea. Think about how easy it is to do something like publish a blog post today. Between drag and drop web site builders and CMS…
This is Why It’s The Greatest Time in History for Creatives
There has never been a better day in the whole history of the world to invent something. There has never been a better time with more opportunities, more openings, lower barriers, higher benefit/risk ratios, better returns, or greater upside than now… Today is a truly wide open frontier. We are all becoming. It is the…
How Artificial Intelligence Will Enhance Human Creativity
It’s possible that when you think of artificial intelligence, you imagine Minority Report or IronMan. But artificial intelligence is already deeply embedded in many aspects of your daily life. Your Netflix recommendations, Amazon purchases and Facebook feed are all driven by algorithms and artificial intelligence. If you’re reading this on Medium, it’s possible it showed…
