All great tasks test our motivation. It's easy to court ideas over beers and change the world with napkin sketches, but like most things taken home from bars, new challenges arise the next day. It's in the morning light when work begins, and grand ideas (or barroom conquests) lose their luster. To do interesting things requires work and it's no surprise we abandon demanding passions for simpler, easier, more predictable things.
When I'm the speaker, I know that special moment [just before speaking] is the only time I will have the entire audience's full attention. Unless an … - Scott Berkun
When I'm the speaker, I know that special moment [just before speaking] is the only time I will have the entire audience's full attention. Unless an …
- Scott Berkun
Anyone can criticize or accept praise, but initiating a positive exchange is a hallmark of a difference maker. - Scott Berkun
Anyone can criticize or accept praise, but initiating a positive exchange is a hallmark of a difference maker.
Innovation is significant positive change. - Scott Berkun
Innovation is significant positive change.
Most people doubt online meeting scan work, but they somehow overlook that most in person meetings don't work either. - Scott Berkun
Most people doubt online meeting scan work, but they somehow overlook that most in person meetings don't work either.
My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal. - Scott Berkun
My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal.
Commit yourself to taking enough risks that you will fail some of the time. If you're not failing, we're not doing something sufficiently difficult o… - Scott Berkun
Commit yourself to taking enough risks that you will fail some of the time. If you're not failing, we're not doing something sufficiently difficult o…
It’s not the fear of writing that blocks people, it’s fear of not writing well; something quite different. - Scott Berkun
It’s not the fear of writing that blocks people, it’s fear of not writing well; something quite different.
Part of the challenge of innovation is coming up with the problem to solve, not just its solution. - Scott Berkun
Part of the challenge of innovation is coming up with the problem to solve, not just its solution.
Staying curious and open is what makes growth possible, and it requires practice to maintain that mindset. To keep learning, we have to avoid the te… - Scott Berkun
Staying curious and open is what makes growth possible, and it requires practice to maintain that mindset. To keep learning, we have to avoid the te…
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