Growth
Why We Should Always Be Learning
I believe in learning. Not as measured in diplomas, but learning as measured in intellectual adventure, physical training or creative practice. I don’t care why you’re learning, as long as you are. Almost.
Peak Performance
Why Practice is Essential for Mindset Training
What’s the one thing people fail at around mindset training? PRACTICE A software engineer doesn’t take on an innovative challenge without having learned and practiced the coding techniques she will use. She studies and becomes so comfortable with her available skills that she can invent around them under pressure. Read more…
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
The Failure of Failing Forward
(This article is based on a talk I gave at Nonprofit Boot Camp in San Francisco.) Haunted By Failure A few years ago I led a program at Craigslist Foundation called LikeMinded. It was part of a high profile suite of projects funded by a major foundation. Like 9 out 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…