Robert Greene knew from a young age he wanted to be a writer. He loved books and words and aspired to be a novelist. But he was also a realist and had to make a living, so he moved to New York and landed a job as a journalist. One day, while dining at lunch, […]
Words Into Works #053 | Rethinking
In 2009, Blackberry owned 50 percent of the smartphone market. By 2014, however, with the iPhone’s rise in popularity, that number tumbled to 1 percent. Part of Blackberry’s decline was founder Mike Lazaridis’s belief that the world would never want more from a mobile phone than to make calls and send and receive emails. Put […]
Think Like a C Student (But Only Sometimes)
Imagine you’re back in high school. You wrote an assignment a week earlier, and you’re nervously awaiting your final grade. Your teacher returns your paper, and that’s when you see your grade for the first time: “Nice work. B.” “Damn,” you mutter aloud, comparing yourself to your straight-A friend, “I was so close to getting […]
How I Used Notion to Launch an Online Course (Step-by-Step)
So, I recently relaunched my flagship program, Getting Things Done with Notion. But with a full-time job and a family that takes up most of my free time, I needed to plan my launch meticulously to leverage that time correctly. To do that, I planned the entire relaunch—comprising three project phases and fifty-nine tasks—in Notion. […]
How to Write a Book Summary (Step-by-Step)
In 2015, I wrote a book summary for The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. Distilling the book’s key ideas helped me remember what I read. Plus, readers got a lot from it, so I continued with other nonfiction books I read. Since then, I’ve written 100+ book summaries for the best non-fiction books of […]
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