Feb 22

10 Best Lessons I’d Teach My Younger Self

My dear friend Lewis Howes recently asked me a damn good question. If you could - what would you tell your younger self? My answer sucked. But he told me HIS answer and I thought his answer was a good one... So good in fact that I wished I'd had learned the lessons much much earlier in life. I tried to write this in my own voice, but since the list and story weren't mine... read more ›
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Dec 01

Whatever Makes You Nervous

dash by martin gisborne
Whenever Michael Jordan gets on the golf course and his friends ask the stakes of the game--how much money they're betting against one another--rumor has it that his stock response is: "Whatever makes you nervous." That's what you should bet on yourself, every time. Not what makes you comfortable, but what makes you nervous. Your muscles get stronger by running, jumping, lifting weights, by stressing them out, by pushing them, not by sitting on the... read more ›
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Nov 02

Make A Lot of It

I'm certainly not a chef, but whenever I'm asked what the "key ingredient" is to making good photographs, good ART, the answer I give is a simple one: make a lot of it. We often talk about how vision is everything, but vision doesn't come from the womb full grown and mature. It's cultivated. And that cultivation takes time and effort. Certainty and control might be your friends while performing surgery, but they are not... read more ›
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