Mike "Bagel"
@bagelpuc
Small Business Counselor, Podcaster, Writer, Connector
Mike "Bagel"
@bagelpuc
Small Business Counselor, Podcaster, Writer, Connector
Why thinking? Why is thinking significant? Why try to improve your thinking? The answer is simple: Only through thinking (and taking action based on the right assumptions) can you change whatever it is about your life that needs changing (even the parts you don’t know need changing). Only through thinking can you take command of your future. A good
... See moreThis occurs often with professional service people—coaches, wealth managers, executive assistants. There’s a funny phrase you hear when something is working. “Haha, this is like therapy.” Meaning: oh, it’s weird that we’re talking about feelings. But it shouldn’t be. Emotions are the substance of motivation, and so, if you’re trying to get people
... See moreHidden from the world at Chawton cottage, suddenly, almost miraculously free of most responsibilities both domestic and social, Austen, for the first time in over a decade, had gained real and meaningful space to think and work creatively. It’s here, working at a modest writing desk by a window overlooking the road, that she finally finishes the
... See more“Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.” —José Ortega y Gassett
“They’re at the vanguard of a movement that’s leveraging the disruptions of the pandemic to question so many more of the arbitrary assumptions that have come to define the modern workplace.”
"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things."
—Ray Bradbury