Author Ryan Holiday is back to share insights from his new book Ego Is The Enemy. He'll tell you how to avoid letting your ego derail you as you're building your career, when you've failed, or when you're on the verge of your greatest success.
Are you doing the work you're wired to do, or are you just moving through you days? If you want to figure out what you're wired for, and you want to create impact with your work, you need to cultvate six traits.
How well do you see? I don't mean just what's there, but also what's not there? Amy Herman has spent years training people how to see patterns and nuance in works of art, and today she's going to help us improve our perception with tips from her new book Visual Intelligence.
Alan Siegel is a legend in the world of branding and design. He is the co-founder of Siegel + Gale, the founder of Siegelvision, and the co-author of the book Simple: Conquering The Crisis Of Complexity. In our conversation, Mr. Siegel shares practical tips for seeking simplicity in your work and cultivating empathy for the people you serve.
I often see people compromise their work and choices because they've made poor financial decisions that come back to haunt them later. Kim Palmer, Money Editor for US News, is here today to help us make better financial decisions that will give us freedom in our creative pursuits.
Success doesn't occur overnight, but neither does failure. Luck aside, both are typically the result of cumulative choices, and how well you position yourself to take advantage of opportunities. By implementing a handful of daily practices into your routine, you can better prepare yourself to deal with the pressures and constraints of your work, and ensure that you are spending your finite resources wisely. While there’s no formula for success, daily practices allow you to somewhat stack the deck in your favor.
Brilliant performers in any field often have rituals or practices that they fall back on to help them perform consistently at their peak. When you are charged with doing complex work every day, rituals can bring order to your world and help you focus more effectively. If you want to deliver a result consistently, you must systemize it, and that's precisely what a ritual does.
Have you ever wondered if there is work that you are perfectly wired to do? Maybe even work that would make you say "I was born for this"? Today's guest, Chris Guillebeau, has just written a book that explores these issues, and on this episode he shares some practical advice for navigating toward work that is more perfectly suited to who you are what you're wired to do.
The hardest part of any creative project isn't the beginning or the end, it's squarely in the middle. This is where you'll encounter three common roadblocks, or hurdles, that will make it difficult to complete your task. In today's episode, we deconstruct these three hurdles and discuss how to overcome them.
David Burkus is a professor of management at Oral Roberts University, and he’s just published a new book called Under New Management which highlights how some leaders are doing radical things in the pursuit of a more effective workplace, and how you can follow their lead.
If you do your work in public, it’s inevitable that you’re going to attract criticism. Often, very public criticism. You hear a lot of advice about how to deal with this kind of blowback, but it’s often anecdotal. Today’s guest, Jay Baer, has just launched a research-based book about how to deal with criticism - both in public and in private - called Hug Your Haters. He’s going to help us understand how to deal with our critics, and how to treat feedback - even harsh criticism - as a favor, not a problem.
Many people have ideas they’d like to pursue, whether that’s a new business, or a personal project, but in the choking stress of day to day life, their passion eventually wanes and the idea lies dormant. How do you actually bring an idea into the world, even while you are balancing all of the normal pressures of a job and a family?
If you collaborate with others, you need to understand how to interact with, lead, and get the best work out of them. Today's guest, Michael Bungay Stanier, has just released a book about how to develop a "coaching habit", and he will help us understand why coaching is important and how to do it well.
A key source of this kind of misalignment is assumptive behavior or beliefs that – over time – become organizational ruts. You assume that you and your fellow team members are all on the same page because you’re privy to all of the same information, but how that information is absorbed and interpreted is a very personal thing, and can lead to sharp division if you don’t seek common understanding.
Adam Steltzner has a more interesting job than you. And me. And probably most of the people listening to this show. He's an engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and he helps design things and land them on Mars. In today's episode, he shares some of what he's learned about doing hard things, and some insights from his new book The Right Kind Of Crazy.
Everyone wants to be liked. Given the choice between being liked or disliked, very few (sane) people would choose the latter. However, where does being liked rank on your list of priorities?
In 2004, ABC News anchor Dan Harris had a panic attack in front of five million people on national television, which led to a personal quest to discover how to be more present and emotionally healthy. On today's episode, he shares some of what he discovered and chronicled in his book 10% Happier.
Cal Newport argues that the most important skill to develop is the ability to do "deep work". This is work that allows you to make big leaps in your work and accomplish your long-term objectives rather than getting stuck in the muck and mire of "shallow work". On today's episode, he teaches us what deep work is and how to do more of it.
Ten years ago this month, The Accidental Creative podcast launched. In today's episode, I share ten things I've learned over the past decade about creating something valuable that resonates with others.
What do you do when competitors are knocking off your product? Today's guest, Dave Munson (founder and CEO of Saddleback Leather), decided to create a video to show them how to do it better. In today's episode, Dave shares how to build your business around an ethic, why showing your values is critical, and the importance of seeking wisdom and establishing a vision.