To put that number in perspective, if you practiced an activity four hours per day, seven days per week, it would take you about seven years to reach ten thousand hours. That kind of dedication can on...
There is no shortage of problems to be solved, needs and desires to be fulfilled, and innovative ways to help others.
That’s why the coffee house in the Age of Enlightenment and the Parisian salons of modernism were such engines of creativity; they were spaces where many people from many different backgrounds and are...
Some people like to think that geniuses are so inherently extraordinary that they navigate their journeys with clairvoyant ease. This simply isn't true. Greatness does not come lightly. It requires...
Only in purpose can you find the strength to cross the Rubicon and march toward greatness. Goals are the milestones you create for your journey.
Most of us regard creativity in the same way we regard that statement—as a mysterious gift that can’t be explained or cultivated. But we’re wrong. Like genius itself, creativity is a process, not a pr...
Morgan retaliated with a strategy that would become one of his hallmarks. He spread rumors to Wall Street that Westinghouse’s company was financially unstable, which dissuaded investors from giving We...
Joseph Campbell said, deep down inside, we don’t seek the meaning of life, but the experience of being alive.
If you want to learn about one of history's greatest military commanders and uncover some of his secrets of drive--drive that enabled him and his small army to first subdue all of Greece and then the...
If you believe the fearmongers, there never is a good time to start anything. Something is always wrong. There are always holes in the business model, always dangers lying below the surface, waiting t...
IQ and success are related...to a point. Sure, someone with an IQ of 150 (a genius by all normal standards) is going to do much better in life than someone with an IQ of 80 (nearly mentally disabled)....
Dr. K Anders Ericsson called the 10,000 hour rule. The rule’s premise is that, regardless of whether one has an innate aptitude for an activity or not, mastery of it takes around ten thousand hours of...
As journeys unfold, new challenges arise and pressures mount. These successive tolls must too be paid in creativity and ingenuity, as they were by history's most imaginative minds.
Argonauts—and builds the largest ship ever constructed. He then figures out how to successfully navigate the legendary maze of crushing rocks known as the Symplegades, yoke fire-breathing, bronze-hoof...
An unexpected dead end in one journey is merely an opportunity to set a new course for another.
Was a dream project for Tesla, and Westinghouse was awarded the contract. Construction began immediately, and Tesla would oversee it. Progress was slow. The project was perilous and fraught with
The opportunities presented to one are just as important to success as one’s own inherent talents and willingness to put in thousands of hours of work.
Imagination is more important than knowledge, because knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and unders...
Every field of human endeavor, the more visionary the work, the less likely it is to be quickly understood and embraced by lesser minds. For one reason or another, many people just don’t get it.
Character-driven idea fascinated Barrios. It suggested that genius is much more than high intelligence, innate talent, extraordinary work ethic, or uncanny luck, but rather a composite manifestation;...