The Science of Small Wins
Table of Contents The Problem with Multiple Priorities You’ve been there. Monday morning team meetings where the question floats around: “What are your top three priorities for the week?” It’s an age-old managerial tactic designed to help us
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I spent an hour on this opening paragraph. The hour
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Empirically, the way to do really big things seems to be to start with deceptively small things. Paul Graham‘s advice for startups, which applies to tackling challenges in general. Start
“Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.” — Pablo Picasso Hope inspiration, or at least some ice cream, finds you working today!
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Action is hope. At the end of each day, when you’ve done your work, you lie there and think, Well, I’ll be damned, I did this today. It doesn’t matter
We’ve written before about the secret to happiness and motivation at work. Harvard Business School professor Teresa Amabile and psychologist Steven Kramer wrote a whole book about it called The
A little Adventure Time encouragement to those of us who want to be sorta good at something. One step at a time.
Teresa Norton writes at HBR about how a simple exercise called the story spine can help you get unstuck and make change while “living truthfully” at work. The story spine
Ten life lessons — for everyone! mattjayblog: dad’s wise words. applicable to any pursuit, i believe.
— Mark Hoffmann comments on this NYT Well blog post, suggesting that willpower improves when you define your tasks better.
