Never waste your midlife crisis - Austin Kleon

Now, most people in my position would have stopped writing on Quora, graduating to writing for a major publication. I didn’t. I had built a massive following on Quora, and was averaging more than 1.5 million organic views per month, every month, while still having at least one of my answers republished by a major publication every single week. I wa

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I shared the details of Steve Jobs’s story, because when it comes to finding fulfilling work, the details matter. If a young Steve Jobs had taken his own advice and decided to only pursue work he loved, we would probably find him today as one of the Los Altos Zen Center’s most popular teachers. But he didn’t follow this simple advice. Apple Compute

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Unfortunately, the vast majority of writers don’t create their own categories. To be honest, most don’t even know they can—let alone how. Instead, what they do is they spend their entire lives trying to compete in someone else’s category. From the moment they decide they want to become a writer, they look at someone else and think, “That’s who I wa

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