Mark Holden
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Mark Holden
o be a successful writer, you must have something to write about, and this is where many writers in almost every genre, both nonfiction and fiction, fall short. Many writers have limited education and experience, and they live mainly inside their own thoughts. Unfortunately, unless you are Buckminster Fuller or Stephen Hawking, your thoughts are of
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Focus: The Ultimate Guide on How to Improve Focus and Concentration
“I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not a virtue. It was a disguise.”
— Anaïs Nin
— Anaïs Nin
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Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
Rumi
"The way to figure out what to work on is by working."
"I think for most people who want to do great work, the right strategy is not to plan too much. At each stage do whatever seems most interesting and gives you the best options for the future. I call this approach 'staying upwind.' This is how most people who've done great work seem to have done... See more
"I think for most people who want to do great work, the right strategy is not to plan too much. At each stage do whatever seems most interesting and gives you the best options for the future. I call this approach 'staying upwind.' This is how most people who've done great work seem to have done... See more
"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have
the final word in reality."
Martin Luther King Jr.
Joan Didion reminds us that self-respect blooms when we break free from others’ expectations:
“To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves—there lies the great, the singular power of self-respect.”
“To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves—there lies the great, the singular power of self-respect.”
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Direction of Your Dreams
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within
... See morePersistence isn’t just pushing harder—it’s having energy that demands new ideas.
Think of a founder solving a problem. Someone with just determination keeps trying the same approach. But a truly persistent founder has a restless energy that demands new solutions. When one approach fails, their energy compels them to imagine new ones. This cycle—ener... See more
Think of a founder solving a problem. Someone with just determination keeps trying the same approach. But a truly persistent founder has a restless energy that demands new solutions. When one approach fails, their energy compels them to imagine new ones. This cycle—ener... See more