Growth
Making Friends with Chaos
Using data is a key to improvement. To separate ourselves from others, we should embrace chaos.
Focus
Plateaus and Four Ways to Get Past Them
Everyone hits plateaus on the way to impossible goals, but there are things you can do to get past them more quickly: staying with the plan, changing the plan, easing up and staying one step ahead. Why Am I Stuck On This #@?!ing Plateau? I’ve hit a plateau. Actually I’ve Read more…
Innovation
Creating Deep Mastery from Repetition: Problem Solving
This is the fourth and final article about using repetition toward deep mastery. So far, we have explored discipline and expertise and expression. Repetition can take us to an even deeper level when we integrate it with problem solving. LEVEL 4 – REPETITION CREATES ELEGANT SOLUTIONS It’s easy to be Read more…
Peak Performance
5 Things I Did Not Expect to Learn from Woody Allen
I’m not a Woody Allen fan. While I have enjoyed a few of his movies, most of the time I find them uninteresting, unfunny and contrived. His latest film, Blue Jasmine, is set here in the Bay Area and had some word-of-mouth, so I gave it a chance. And it Read more…