Niall Marshall
@marshan
Niall Marshall
What you do is more important than how you do everything else, and doing something well does not make it important .
"Productivity" Tricks for the Neurotic, Manic-Depressive, and Crazy (Like Me) - The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
“Your input determines your outlook. Your outlook determines your output, and your output determines your future.”—Zig Ziglar
“When you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes
rather than ability. Your tastes only narrow and exclude people. So
create.”
The full comment is at http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/01/06/the-gollum-effect/#comment-9310
If you want to start a writing habit, don’t start with essays. Write paragraphs. Shaping and editing essays from a cold start is quite hard. Instead, practice riffing paragraphs over a huge range of ideas. Publish them all somewhere, but don’t blast them.
‘We learn more from our mistakes than our successes.’
"In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts."
Anne Lamott • Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
I think “And what else?” is the best coaching question in the world. It does two things: It extends the period of curiosity, and it tames your advice monster.