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Use Your Art in Service of the Good

What are you doing with your art? I don’t mean your paintings or sculptures or your songs (unless of course you do those things). Your art is that thing (or things) you do well, perhaps better than anyone else. It’s the discipline, the talent, the gift you have that allows you to excel at something, [...]

May 10, 2012 2 comments CONTINUE READING THIS POST →
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How to do a 1080 on a Skateboard

It looks like the first person to ever land a 1080 on a skateboard is 12-year-old Tom Schaar. Here’s the video: As you’ll notice, most of the video is of him falling. That’s what success looks like – lots of falling down and getting back up. Two things also made the impossible possible (as noted [...]

May 9, 2012 0 comments CONTINUE READING THIS POST →
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The Beauty of Human Resiliency

There’s a great, redemptive article in this month’s Fortune. It tells the story of Leigh Steinberg, upon whom the movie “Jerry Maguire” was (sort of) based. Steinberg was once on top of the sports world and then it all came crashing down, largely due to alcohol addiction. What I love about the piece is that it [...]

May 8, 2012 0 comments CONTINUE READING THIS POST →
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What’s Your Lens?

Here’s an interesting and short video about perspective (h/t: Kottke.org): When you change your perspective, things can look very, very different. This is what empathy does for us. Just imagine how different our social, political, or economic conversations would be if we could take the position of the jump rope. Part of what shapes our [...]

May 7, 2012 0 comments CONTINUE READING THIS POST →
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Passion is Really About Engagement

Penelope Trunk has an excellent post about passion and work. She nails it when she says: When you say you want to do something you’re passionate about, you really mean, when you think about it, that you want to do something that is right for you. Something that is fulfilling and feels like the thing [...]

May 4, 2012 0 comments CONTINUE READING THIS POST →