Quick Pick if You’re Impatient Start with Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon. It will flip your perspective on influence and teach you that nothing is truly original (which is actually freeing). If you want something deeper and more…
I bombed the most important conversation of my career on a Thursday afternoon. I was negotiating a raise with my boss — the raise I'd earned, the raise I.
I used to be a painfully slow reader. While my friends tore through novels in a weekend, I'd still be on chapter three by Monday. I loved books — I just.
My sister called me one Tuesday night in tears. Not sad tears — frustrated tears. The kind that come from years of being the responsible one, the reliable one,.
I turned 30 in a rented apartment with $2,000 in savings, a career I'd stumbled into by accident, and a vague sense that I'd wasted my twenties. Not wasted in.
My hands were shaking so badly that the audience could see my notes vibrating from the back row. I was giving my first-ever presentation at work — a 10-minute.
I used to think people were unpredictable. My boss would praise my work on Monday and criticize it on Wednesday for what seemed like the exact same thing. My.
I was 28 when I got diagnosed with ADHD. Not the hyperactive-can't-sit-still kind. The other kind — the kind where you sit perfectly still at your desk for.
I couldn't order pizza on the phone until I was 26 years old. That's not hyperbole. I would literally drive to the pizza place, walk in, and order in person —.
I got promoted to manager on a Friday. By the following Wednesday, I had an employee crying in my office, a missed deadline I didn't know about, and a team.
