Most people have never heard of Brody Stevens and that's a shame.
Because he was one of the most original comedic voices we've ever seen.
He passed away recently and while I didn't know him personally, I was a fan of his work and he accomplished something few people ever do in any creative field:
He was truly one of a kind.
Now, on to this week's ideas...
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"Fear is the result of underestimating what you can handle."
We all get scared, but it's what we do in the face of our fears that determines how our lives turns out.
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"The promises that we make and we keep and those we choose to dishonor...that is what defines us and our character."
This is an incredibly powerful video.
In a 36-minute Creative Mornings talk Alex Sheen breaks down the power of promises and explains how his father inspired him to launch because I said I would, a social movement and nonprofit dedicated to the betterment of humanity through promises made and kept.
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"You should be making work that you enjoy, that you need, that you want to hold in your hands or use."
I'm sure one of the biggest reasons for the success of For The Interested is that it's a creation I'd want to consume.
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"Books, Essays, Websites, Quotes, Lists, Advice, Movies . . . Whew."
You're pretty much guaranteed to find something here that will help your writing.
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"When people are nudged to treat a weekend as a vacation they return to work on Monday happier than the control group that spent their weekend doing the same-old same-old."
It turns out not all weekends are created equal.
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"Artists with a large and diverse network of contacts were most likely to be famous, regardless of how creative their art was."
What if your ability to network with other artists is every bit as important as the art you create?
It may be, according to a study that looked at how the work of various historical artists became famous and the correlation between that work and the artist's social network.
Casey Lesser points out artists become famous through their friends and that an artist being particularly creative with their work had little correlation with their level of fame compared to the influence of their network of relationships.
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"If I lost all my money and if you drop me on a random street in any English-speaking country, within five to ten years I'd be wealthy again because it's just a skill set that I've developed and I think anyone can develop."
Whether you think you're lucky or not, this one's likely to change your mind about what luck is.
Naval Ravikant breaks down the four kinds of luck (based on a Marc Andreesen concept) including blind luck, luck that comes as a result of persistence or hard work, luck which is actually the result of an ability to identify luck, and luck that is attracted by something you create.
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"There is no moment that you become an entrepreneur, so there is no need to quit your job just to define yourself as one."
If you want to do something entrepreneurial, the first step is to realize your job isn't likely holding you back from making it happen.
Steph Smith suggests you don't need to quit your job to be a maker, breaks down why the idea that you don't have enough time is a myth, and points out how having a job can actually help you be more successful in your entrepreneurial effort.
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"While we're bad at estimating how long tasks will take us to complete, we're actually pretty good at estimating how long it will take someone else to complete a task."
We're bad at predicting how long it takes to do things.
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"Every career is a work in progress —forever."
Some of the best ways to figure out the direction you want to take your career have nothing to do with the jobs themselves.
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