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If It Doesn’t Suck, It’s Not Worth Doing

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But as Robert Greene explains in his book Mastery , you can learn to love this internal resistance. So, you want to develop what Greene calls a “perverse pleasure” in experiencing internal conflict, and sit with it. As a consequence, the few who cultivate this skill, and then make it the core of their working life, will thrive.”

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How to Build a Library Worth Having

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Here’s a mindset to guide you as you begin: Your library needs to show that you’re a serious student of life, health, spirituality, culture, uniqueness, sophistication, economics, prosperity, productivity, sales, management, skills and values of all kinds. This article was published in December 2016 and has been updated.

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Queer Eye’s Bobby Berk on Designing a Space—and Life—That Makes You Happy

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Berk credits that success with “selling yourself, not necessarily your skills.” When the magazine asked Berk to design two show homes for the International Builder Show around the time he moved to LA with his husband, he agreed, having no clue how to draw up construction documents and electrical layouts.

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Introducing the SUCCESS 125

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An 18-year blogging veteran, Ajayi covers all things culture with a critical yet humorous lens on her website Awesomely Luvvie and wrote the instant best-sellers Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual (2021) and I’m Judging You: The Do-Better Manual (2016). million views. Amina AlTai. Kim Anthony. Tom and Lisa Bilyeu.

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A 4-Question Guide to Unlock Your Creativity

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They are sensitive to the environment they’re in as well as their internal, emotional environment. Creative achievement requires executive function skills —the opposite of leaky attention, one of the many contradictions that makes creativity so messy, Kaufman says. They don’t disregard things as irrelevant.

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How Badly Do You Want the Life You Dream About?

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From dealing with the challenges I never would have chosen (experiencing an armed robbery and numerous family tragedies) to those I’ve willingly taken on (having four children in five years while moving around the world), I’ve discovered that courage is a skill. And, like all skills, it can be learned and mastered.

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