“All good books have one thing in common — they are truer than if they had really happened.” –Ernest Hemingway Before I start, give me twenty seconds to convince you that reading this article is a valuable use of your time, because learning how to tell good stories is important not just for obvious storytellers, …
When I drove into Atlanta the first time it was pouring rain. I’d been on the interstate all day and I’d never been to the south before. Hot summer day with humidity so thick it made your clothes and your hair stick to you — the kind of weather that breeds bad smells and rain. West …
“No two minds ever come together without thereby creating a third, invisible intangible force, which may be likened to a third mind.” — Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich One of the most beneficial things you can do for your professional development is form a mastermind. A mastermind is a group of people in a similar place …
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Self-directed learning is challenging and liberating. It’s hard, because it’s all on you — success, failure, and vision. It’s liberating, because it gives you the freedom to learn exactly what you want, however you want, without having to conform to anyone else’s standards. It’s the purest and most effective form of education there is. As …
Actually, to be precise, eleven months. I started this daily-writing thing at the end of January 2017, after talking about it for months and throwing around the word “someday” and never actually doing anything about it. I’d watched my friend do it — he’d started writing every day in the fall of 2016, and he …
Sons and Lovers was my first taste of D.H. Lawrence. I’d heard good things and wanted to try, but ultimately it was one of those books I picked up because of the cover, got hooked on by the summary, decided to give it a go. My old coworker had a copy, was moving and giving …