What does it take for you to get a project out the door? At what point are you ready to let it out into the world? I think we often hold onto projects for too long. It's a form of fear. We think that what we're making isn't good enough and that if we just give it a little more attention then it will be really good. The Goldilocks Amount of Time: Just Right So it's a balancing act. You don't want to put garbage into the world. And you don't want to hold on forever. You have to find the middle ground. I had a powerful experience with this when I wrote my second book. The first one, of course, took me a long time and I labored … [Read more...]
Innovate Like Edison – Michael Gelb and Sarah Miller Caldicott
This article was originally published a few years ago at the RockStar Success Library. I read my first book about Thomas Alva Edison when I was in the third grade. I remember being just as fascinated by his middle name as by the long list of his discoveries. Even though I still think he has a very cool middle name, I’ve moved past that to appreciate the unique impact he still has on our daily lives almost a century after his inventive peak. Innovate like Edison takes a unique approach to looking at the inventor’s life. It’s not so much concerned with the list of inventions that he was responsible for, or even his individual genius, … [Read more...]