We’ve all been there. You take on a fun, new endeavor—learning a language, building a business—and get good feedback from the people around you. You’re engaged and enjoying the fruits of your efforts. But then the Dip happens. The Dip, writes Seth Godin in the book of the same name, is a temporary setback that […]

James Clear is known by many as the New York Times bestselling author of Atomic Habits, a book that has sold more than 3 million copies.  But what few people know is, before building his career as a writer, Clear trained in college baseball and, in particular, strength training. One day, Clear’s strength and conditioning coach, Mark Watts, […]

In 1990, Jerry Sternin, the then US Country Director of Save the Children, traveled to Vietnam to fight malnutrition. The condition was at an all-time high, with one Vietnamese in three suffering from malnutrition and one in four facing starvation. [1] Sternin traveled to rural villages and learned from conversations with local groups of mothers […]

In a previous edition of Words Into Works, we met author Steven Pressfield, who went to extraordinary efforts to write a novel. But we didn’t discuss what happened after—after Pressfield had said no to everything else. One morning over coffee, Pressfield shared with his friend Paul Rink, a fellow author, that he had finally finished his book. […]