Laura also connects efforts to be a conscientious consumer with issues relating to social justice, which also play a big role in the Mennonite Church.
Kirk’s path to American Treasures was incremental. He didn’t decide out of nowhere that he wanted to host a television show and then work backward to make that dream a reality. Instead, he worked forw...
Jim Clark was interviewed at an event held at Stanford University. At some point in the interview, the topic turned to social media. Clark’s reaction was unexpected given his high-tech background: I j...
It was tentativeness, not boldness, that transformed Pardis’s general mission into a specific success.
It is a lifetime accumulation of deliberate practice that again and again ends up explaining excellence.
It follows that to embrace deep work in your own career, and to direct it toward cultivating your skill, is an effort that can transform a knowledge work job from a distracted, draining obligation int...
Inspired by these meetings, Franklin created a scheme in which the Junto members would contribute funds toward buying books that all members could use. This model soon grew beyond Franklin’s Friday ev...
In the movies there’s this idea that you should just go for your dream, Glass tells them. But I don’t believe that. Things happen in stages. Glass emphasizes that it takes time to get good at anything...
In my experience, the key to sustained success with this philosophy is accepting that it's not really about technology, but is instead more about the quality of your life. The more you experiment with...
In a seminal 1981 paper, the economist Sherwin Rosen worked out the mathematics behind these winner-take-all markets. One of his key insights was to explicitly model talent—labeled, innocuously, with...
In Wrzesniewski’s research, the happiest, most passionate employees are not those who followed their passion into a position, but instead those who have been around long enough to become good at what...
In Morozov’s critique, we’ve made the Internet synonymous with the revolutionary future of business and government. To make your company more like the Internet is to be with the times, and to ignore t...
If you’re wearing headphones, or monitoring a text message chain, or, God forbid, narrating the stroll on Instagram—you’re not really walking, and therefore you’re not going to experience this practic...
If you’re struggling to raise money for an idea, or are thinking that you will support your idea with unrelated work, then you need to rethink the idea.
I have this principle about money that overrides my other life rules, he said. Do what people are willing to pay for.
I am not asking Antonio a style question I could find searching Google for 10 minutes.
Every week, I expose myself to something new about my field. I can read a paper, attend a talk, or schedule a meeting. To ensure that I really understand the new idea, I require myself to add a summar...
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Csikszentmihalyi even goes so far as to argue that modern companies should embrace this reality, suggesting that jobs should be redesigned so that they resemble as closely as possible flow activities.