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Creativity is the quality that you bring to the activity that you are doing. It is an attitude, an inner approach — how you look at things. Not everyb

Identity fuels action, and action creates habits, and habits are part of a practice, and a practice is the single best way to get to where you seek to

Coincidence as a creative god

One of the easiest ways to engineer luck is to look good. Well defined, well dressed, well groomed. Doesn't matter where you're going, who you're seei

Your best productivity tool might be in your closet. One of the best tips I learned from working with @mattecook for years: “When you have a day whe

How to develop taste: Step 1: Ignore all the hustle-culture get-rich-quick BS. If someone isn't motivated by quality they won't develop it. Step 2:

Spend only after you have assessed the above two things in your life. For me, I’ve made a huge impact in my appearance and my spending by cutting rout

When culture moves fast, brands should look for things that move slowly. Ana Andjelic, Legibility as Status, The Sociology of Business

“The trouble with market research is people don’t think what they feel, they don’t say what they think, and they don’t do what they say.” (David Ogilv

The hard part of computer programming isn’t expressing what we want the machine to do in code. The hard part is turning human thinking – with all its

When Dostoyevsky places the phrase “beauty will save the world” in the mouth of Prince Myshkin(from the book, the idiot), it is not offered as a solut

“You can’t connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards. So, you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in

Most of us get decked somewhere along the way in life, slammed to the ground, the world looking down on us. And when—not if, when—that happens, we hav

Community means a lot of things to a lot of people. Whether it’s your local running group, a book club, your gym squad, family, or membership in an ex

Investment and time are required to establish a foundation for lasting community; members need to feel as if they have a shared emotional connection,

Everybody wants to have a village, but few are willing to be villagers. Building presence takes work. It requires vulnerability, patience, and the wil

Optimism Is Associated With Exceptional Longevity in 2 Epidemiologic Cohorts of Men and Women

Vincent Van Gogh on the accumulation of small things: “Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. The tri

You’re doomscrolling because you’re looking for something to transform you but you can’t stay with one thing for long enough to be transformed by it.

The point of life is to live, and living isn’t a spectator sport. Living means taking risks, pursuing your interests, embarrassing yourself, attemptin

If you want to be the best in the world, don’t start by trying to create the best product or service. Start by figuring out how people want to feel.

Product advertising explains the product to me. Brand advertising explains me to me. (via John Bevins)

"Marketing is our core competency. We're going to outsource everything else. Red Bull has no production facilities or warehouses." ​ Dietrich Mateschi