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June 16, 2015
Do We See Reality As It Is?
InVisual Intelligence: How We Create What We SeeDonald Hoffmanprese
nts the compelling scientific evidence for vision’s constructive powers, unveiling a grammar of vision – a set of rules that govern our perception of line, color, form, depth, and motion.
Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman is trying to answer a big question: Do we experience the world as it really is … or as we need it to be? In this ever so slightly mind-blowing talk, he ponders how our minds construct reality for us.
What i...
HUMP DAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing, Self-publishing, and Better Living: Change Hurts. Do It Anyway.
Change hurts. Do it anyway.
Embrace the fear of freedom, deciding to determine your own path, this is the work of a grownup, of someone who can identify what truly matters.
Do what you should do. Your mood will follow.
~SETH GODIN, authorWhat to Do When its Your Turn (and its Always Your Turn)
WRITING & SCREENWRITING
How to keep readers from hating your characters, Jodi Hedlund | TweetOne surefire way writers can garner negative reviews is by making one or more of their main characters...
June 15, 2015
Invest On New Skills
InDo Over: Rescue Monday, Reinvent Your Work, and Never Get Stuck,Jon Acuff shows you how you have the power to give yourself a fresh start.
Chasing (or revealing) dreams
Chasing a dream always requires learning new skills. I didn’t get to be a public speaker by not speaking publicly. I had to learn that skill. I didn’t know how to travel very well. I’d never done even really simple things like renting a car by myself. If you try to tell me that driving over those spikes at the rental car r...
Curiosity Is A Superpower–If You Have The Courage To Use It
Hollywood producer Brian Grazer’s grandmother changed his life when she told him curiosity would be his greatest attribute as long as he maintained the courage to use it.
A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Lifeis a brilliantly entertaining, fascinating, and inspiring homage to the power of inquisitiveness and the ways in which it deepens and improves us.
Curiosity is your greatest attribute
It began when I was a kid and my grandmother, grandma Sonya, probably about this high, said to me...
TUESDAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing, Self-publishing, and Better Living: Art & Fear

Fears arise when you look back, and they arise when you look ahead. If you’re prone to disaster fantasies you may even find yourself caught in the middle, starting at your half-finished canvas and fearing both that you lack the ability to finish it, and that no one will understand it if you do.
~DAVID BAYLES, author ofArt & Fear: Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
WRITING & SCREENWRITING
Planning a novel. Or not, My Bookish Life| TweetPlanning a nove...
June 14, 2015
10 Ways To Show Your Creativity
InShow Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
, Austen Kleonshows how to take that critical next step on a creative journey―getting known.
10 Ways to show your creativity:
1. You don’t have to be a genius
If you want people to know about what you do and the things you care about, you have to share. Talk about the things you love. Your voice will follow.
2. Think process, not product
By sharing our process, we allow for the possibility of people having an ongoing co...
Why Dieting Doesn’t Usually Work?
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In the US, 80% of girls have been on a diet by the time they’re 10 years old. In
this honest, raw talk, neuroscientist Sandra Aamodt, author of Welcome to Your Brain: The Science of Jet Lag, Love and Other Curiosities of Life
and Welcome to Your Child’s Brain: How the Mind Grows from Conception to College
, uses her personal story to frame an important lesson about how our brains manage our bodies, as she explores the science behind why d...
MONDAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing, Self-publishing, and Better Living: The Champion’s Mind

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Quote of the dayThe vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when no one else is watching.
JIM AFREMOW, author ofThe Champion’s Mind: How Great Athletes Think, Train, and Thrive
WRITING & SCREENWRITING
Why flashback ruins fiction?, Kristen Lamb’s Blog | TweetCharacter is demonstrated by solving (or not solving) problems REAL-TIME.We do not need to go back in time to explain or tell what...
June 11, 2015
Every Pencil Holds A Promise

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Adam Braun began working summers at hedge funds when he was just sixteen years old, sprinting down the path to a successful Wall Street career. But while traveling he met a young boy begging on the streets of India, who after being asked what he wanted most in the world, simply answered, “A pencil.” This small request led to a staggering series of events that took Braun backpacking through dozens of countries before eventually leaving a prestigious j...
Bad Writers Have Nothing To Say

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Beyond imagination and insight, the most important component of talent is perseverance—the will to write and rewrite in pursuit of perfection. Therefore, when inspiration sparks the desire to write, the artist immediately asks: Is this idea so fascinating, so rich in possibility, that I want to spend months, perhaps years, of my life in pursuit of its fulfilment? Is this concept so exciting that I will get up each morning with the hunger to write? Will...