Great work isn’t enough on its own. If you want your idea to be heard, you have to go the extra mile to ensure that it’s framed to resonate with the right audience. In this episode, you'll learn how.
Time is the currency of productivity and our most finite resource. Today's guest, Laura Vanderkam, will help us reclaim a healthy understanding of time and how we use it to our advantage.
The hardest part of launching something isn't the idea, or even finishing the project or launching the company. The hardest part is often gainin traction once it's launches. Today's guest, Gabriel Weinberg, has not only done it, he's written a playbook for how you can do it to.
In your life and work, you are the keeper of the flame. It’s your job to keep the fire burning, whatever it takes. It’s essential to your ability to thrive, and build a body of work that you point to with pride.
How do you perform in all of the high-stakes moments of your life? This week, Michael Port is here to help us learn how to shine in the spotlight with advice from his new book Steal The Show.
Strangely, the more skilled you become at something, the easier it can be to feel stuck. There are a few common places where even the best and brightest stagnate: emulating others, and emulating (a past form of) themselves. Today, I discuss how to move beyond these two traps.
Why do some people continue to succeed and thrive over the long-term while others falter? Linda Kaplan Thaler argues that there's one main contributing trait - grit. As the founder of a remarkably successful advertising firm, she has proven over the course of many years that grit bears results, and she explains why in her new book Grit To Great.
On any given night, you'll find DJ Z-Trip entertaining tens of thousands of fans at sold-out shows or at festivals such as Coachella, Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, or SXSW. In this interview, he shares how he developed such a unique, resonant style, and how each of us can follow his example to develop our own unique voice.
How do you stand apart from the noise, and avoid becoming a "me too!" in the marketplace? You have to build your work upon something that matters to you. In today's episode, author and teacher Dorie Clark shares insights for how to do so from her book Stand Out.
We all want our work to impact the world. But how do you make your work resonate deeply with your intended audience? Today, I share the six markers of resonance from my new book Louder Than Words.
Your authentic voice is a gift. How will you offer it to others today through your work? Don't waste your life chasing vapor and building someone else's body of work.
If you follow the news, you know that robots and algorithms will be taking over our jobs within a few years, right? Actually, not so much, argues Geoff Colvin, author of the great new book Humans Are Underrated. There are things humans are uniquely qualified to do, and will always do better than machines.
It's so easy to allow expectations to rise to the point of inevitable disappointment. Make sure you are minding your baseline so that you don't squeeze all of the potential for discovery, surprise, and joy from your life and work.
It's easy to be pulled along by your work and to run from task to task and commitment to commitment, but if you want to thrive and do brilliant work, you must learn the value of buffers in life and work. Here are five that you can immediately implement.
Ron Friedman, author of The Best Place To Work, shares what the most effective, beloved organizations and leaders do to help their workplaces thrive.
Have you ever looked around at the work of others and felt like yours isn’t measuring up? Has this ever caused your passion for your work to wane? Don’t allow the slow ratcheting-up of expectations to paralyze you. Use the work of your peers and heroes as fuel, and don’t allow it to trip you up or cause you to drift off-course.
If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll never know when you get there. I believe there are three “markers” of progress that help all of us avoid the trap of drifting along with our work.
Your best ideas won't come from staring harder at a problem, they'll come from immersing yourself in the ideas and thoughts of others. The best way to do this is by immersing yourself in great books. However, each book you read deserves a different amount of your finite resources.
When you are younger, it’s possible to be successful because you are smarter, more talented, or more of a hustler than your peers. However, as you grow older, you begin to see patterns that you might have overlooked before simply because you didn’t have as much data. Knowledge can be bought, but wisdom is always earned.
If you want the important work to get done, and done well, then you need to schedule time for it. Don’t let your frantic schedule disrupt your rhythm. Dedicate time to what matters most and do work you’ll be proud of in ten years.