motiviation
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Learn To Deal With Failure Better Through Improv Comedy
Even though it’s a necessary part of learning and getting better, failure can hit us pretty hard. Failure, however, is an essential component of improv comedy, and approaching failure like it’s just part of a scene in your life can help you take it in stride.
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Think Like A Surfer And Take Important Risks
Surfing is a challenging sport that requires perseverance and risk. Srinivas Rao, writing for productivity and ideas blog the 99u, found it to be an apt metaphor for the risks we need to take in life. You never know where the waves will hit and when you’ll ride them or be crushed beneath them. Still,…
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Nobel Prize Winning Physicist Richard Feynman On Doing Things For The Fun Of It
In an age where it’s easy to find all the answers with a quick Google search, there’s something to be said for having a go yourself. Even if you eventually resort to the infinite wisdom the internet, at least you got the cogs in your head turning… not to mention how good it feels to…
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Avoid Idea Plateaus With A Plan
In this short talk, writer, speaker and creative professional Scott Belsky discusses what he calls “idea plateaus” — the inevitable doldrums that follow the high you feel after coming up with a new idea — and how to avoid them.