Niall Marshall
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Niall Marshall
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.
“We are kept from our goal not by obstacles, but by a clear path to a lesser goal.” —Robert Brault
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Discovery consists of seeing what everyone has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
"In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts."
Anne Lamott • Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
there's this feeling which is the opposite of audience capture - this feeling when you find a group of people who give you permission to be more and more illegible and spontaneous
i love that feeling
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.
Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
Bre Pettis • The Cult of Done Manifesto. The Cult of Done Manifesto Is a Special… | by Bre Pettis | Medium
What you do is more important than how you do everything else, and doing something well does not make it important .
"Productivity" Tricks for the Neurotic, Manic-Depressive, and Crazy (Like Me) - The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
