reframing

Is There a Way to be Successful Without All That Crass Self-Promotion?

I just finished a book called The Invisibles: The Power Of Anonymous Work in an Age of Relentless Self Promotion. While it wasn’t the blockbuster that Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Won’t Stop Talking was, it was a worthy successor for people like us, who, we are told, live and die Read more

5 Things You Need To Know as a Creative To Have a Chance of Success in Business

It always surprises me, the number of creatives (or Makers, as I like to think of them) I have in my audience. By Makers I mean artists, craftspeople, non-commercial writers and things of that nature. I feel terrible because I’m not sure I can help you. When you start a business to make money, that’s Read more

How to Talk About Failure in a Way that Doesn’t Make You Look Like a Loser with No Friends

“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not “Eureka” but “That’s funny…” —Isaac Asimov I’m fascinated by how things work. So I’m always making little guesses about how things will work out, based on my theories. In school, we were taught to call these hypotheses because theories Read more