You don’t become the best at something by playing at a basic level against basic competition your entire career. If you want to be the best guitar player you don’t stop challenging yourself after you learn three chords. If you want to be the best chess player, you don’t play people who are not as […]
Fear can be a project stopper. There are many different types of fear that people allow to prevent them from taking action on ideas, but the people who are unable to define the exact thing(s) they’re afraid of I chalk up to being afraid of The Big Bad Wolf. The Big Bad Wolf is the […]
There is only so much room on your shelf. If you want to add something new to your shelf, you have to remove something already on it. There are dozens of projects you want to work on, but the truth is that you can only reasonably handle a few projects at a time and retain […]
I’m a big believer in finding scary monsters to slay. The most dangerous dragons guard the greatest treasure (the dragons are there to helps us see how much we really want the treasure), but sometimes the big scary monsters are really just cuddly little cutie-pies — and the dangerous dragon might just turn out to […]
Take a look at the photo accompanying this article. There is an incredible amount of detail and nuance to the image. Is it an aerial photo zooming out from the earth and showing roadways cutting through lush rural woodlands of some exotic location? If you look closer, you’ll see that it’s not a photo zoomed […]
Ever wonder why you can give a dozen different people the same tools, technology, time limit, and problem to solve and isolate them from each other for a couple hours and every single one of them will come up with a different solution to the problem? Sure, some ideas may be slightly more similar than […]
For reason my ears have been assaulted recently by people using the wrong words in their conversations. Mark Twain said it best: The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter — it’s the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning. My wife and I started noticing […]