Niall Marshall
@marshan
@marshan
“It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time. Give yourself permission to be a beginner.”
— Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way
“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”
— John Wooden
‘We learn more from our mistakes than our successes.’
“Your input determines your outlook. Your outlook determines your output, and your output determines your future.”—Zig Ziglar
“When you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes
rather than ability. Your tastes only narrow and exclude people. So
create.”
The full comment is at http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/01/06/the-gollum-effect/#comment-9310
Jim Simons: "I’m not an extremely fast thinker myself; I just work hard."
That was all I needed to do—work hard, not fast. A paper I published in '68 took me five years. But it has had 1,850 citations. For a math paper, that’s an awful lot.
There’s too much emphasis on a person’s being able to answer questions quickly."
I think “And what else?” is the best coaching question in the world. It does two things: It extends the period of curiosity, and it tames your advice monster.
Discovery consists of seeing what everyone has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
If you want to start a writing habit, don’t start with essays. Write paragraphs. Shaping and editing essays from a cold start is quite hard. Instead, practice riffing paragraphs over a huge range of ideas. Publish them all somewhere, but don’t blast them.