Work or Play

You know this is true: the fastest way to hate / get sick of / change your perception of a song: use it as your ringtone / hear it being used in an ad. Let me now pose another platitude I’m sure you’ve heard before: Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never…

Revenue Targets Are Arbitrary and Absurd

Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end. – Bob Marley You know that feeling when you repeat a word so many times it became absurd and seemingly lost its meaning? Apparently it’s called Semantic Satiation. I recently observed something similar at…

Ask This One Question to Get Yourself Out of Burnout

I think I’ve cracked burnout recovery. The single question you need to keep asking yourself to get out of burnout: what do I enjoy, really? Not what you should enjoy, not what you had enjoyed, not what you know you enjoyed in the past. Just: what do I need and enjoy right now? Ask yourself…

Brainiac’s guide to Passion, Art, Creativity, and Productivity

https://onbeing.org/programs/elizabeth-gilbert-choosing-curiosity-over-fear-may2018/ I think curiosity is our friend that teaches us how to become ourselves. And it’s a very gentle friend and a very forgiving friend, and a very constant one. Passion is not so constant, not so gentle, not so forgiving, and sometimes. not so available. And so, when we live in a world that…

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