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THURSDAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing, Self-Publishing, and Better Living: Steal Like An Artist

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Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the products you want to use – do the work you want to see done.

~AUSTIN KLEON, author ofSteal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

WRITING

5 Reasons Internal Dialogue is Essential in Fiction, Kristen Lamb’s Blog| Tweet

Understanding why something is important to our writing lays th...

Staying Nimble

Nimble: Thinking Creatively in the Digital Agewill help you discover how to develop a creativity that is strategic and also able to cross platforms, industries or sectors. You’ll discover a creative thinking process that allows you to generate scalable ideas that are both sticky and stretchy.

Fast and Fearless

Staying nimble requires play, observation, listening, reflection, lifelong learning and taking things in stride–a kind of brabery. It requires becoming–an active habitual process (wha...

Make Room For Innovation

In the ever-changing world of business, we’ve arrived at a point where process has trumped culture, where the race toward efficiency has made us complacent and unable to reach our potential. Stuck in the land of status quo, we’ve forgotten how to think. And the very structures put in place to help businesses grow are now holding them back. It’s time toKill the Company.

Lisa Bodell, founder of the internationally recognized innovation research and training firm futurethink, explains that with...

HUMP DAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing, Self-Publishing, and Better Living: The Speed of Trust

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A person has integrity when there is no gap between intent and behavior…when he or she is whole, seamless, the same—inside and out. I call this “congruence.” And it is congruence—not compliance—that will ultimately create credibility and trust.

~STEPHEN M.R. COVEY, author ofThe SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything

WRITING

Writer and artist warriors, Davidjrogersftw| Tweet

“In memory of my sister Sharon. Just one word—courage,...

Choosing Not To Choose

Our ability to make choices is fundamental to our sense of ourselves as human beings, and essential to the political values of freedom-protecting nations. Whom we love; where we work; how we spend our time; what we buy; such choices define us in the eyes of ourselves and others, and much blood and ink has been spilt to establish and protect our rights to make them freely.

In this major new book, Choosing Not to Choose, he presents his most complete argument yet for how we should understand t...

What’s Happiness For You?

In The Happiness Hypothesis,Jonathan Haidt, social psychologist and teacher, presents different hypothesis on how humans can find happiness.

At this year’sAspen Ideas Festival, The Atlantic asked a group of professors, psychologists, and journalists how they would define happiness. According toEli Finkel, a professor of psychology at Northwestern University,the definition is twofold: “It seems to me that happiness is some blend of experience of pleasure and the experience of meaning and fulf...

TUESDAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing, Self-Publishing, and Better Living: Digital Nomad

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Being a digital nomad means living out of hand luggage, being able to move freely around the world by becoming a global citizen and looking at life through a different window. This lifestyle will open different doors compared to a location grounded one. It’s a freedom lifestyle you can create, alternative for sure, rebellious to some, but it might just be the lifestyle you seek to have.

~DAVE BRETT, author ofDigital Nomad: Work online, Travel the...

I Am Emma Plows. I Am Not Emma Plows With Bipolar.

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In February 2007 I was diagnosed with Bipolar type one after a long battle with post natal depression, where I was hospitalised numerous times. Throughout the period between 2004 to 2009 myself Noah and Moses were all given a diagnosis of something life changing, but as a mother I refused to be labelled and judged by a medical condition. I am Emma Plows; I am not Emma Plows with Bipolar.

It’s my understanding that when you discover your child is on t...

The Universe Wants To Be Beautiful

In his new book A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature’s Deep Design, theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek marries the age-old human quest for beauty and the age-old human quest for truth into a thrilling synthesis: The universe wants to be beautiful.

In this video interview, Wilczek delves deep into the fundamental idea of symmetry.

Did you know symmetry is much more complex than what we were taught in school?

Symmetry in common usage is a kind of vague term like most terms...

MONDAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing, Self-Publishing, and Better Living: Stay Loyal To Your Journey

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Staying loyal to your journey means you never abandon yourself by compromising your integrity or discounting your intuition or the signals that come from your body—the knot in the gut, emotional detachment, or loss of energy that signals something is amiss.

~CHARLOTTE KASL, author ofIf the Buddha Dated: A Handbook for Finding Love on a Spiritual Path

WRITING

Plotting a novel series? Plan your world and characters, Now Novel| Tweet

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