Distraction is a curse of modern life. Between our cell phones and computer screens, not to mention our kids and coworkers, our attention is constantly being diverted. It can become difficult to focus on any one task—or any one person—for very longhttps://www.nirandfar.com/distractions/

Learn How To Avoid Distraction In A World That Is Full Of It

Distraction is an unhealthy escape from bad feelings. In this article, Nir provides a 4-step strategy on how to avoid distraction and take back your life.

You don’t need to be loud to have great ideas. There’s zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.

Introverts Do Have Great Ideas

We don’t need giant personalities to transform companies. We need leaders who build not their own egos but the institutions they run.

Check Your Ego

You don’t need to be loud to have great ideas

You don’t need to be loud to have great ideas.

The trick for introverts is to honor their styles instead of allowing themselves to be swept up by prevailing norms.

Honor Yourself

The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some, it’s a Broadway spotlight; for others, a lamplit desk. Use your natural powers — of persistence, concentration, and insight — to do work you love and work that matters. Solve problems. make art, think deeply.

Do What You Do Best

Flow is an optimal state in which you feel totally engaged in an activity…In a state of flow, you’re neither bored nor anxious, and you don’t question your own adequacy. Hours pass without your noticing.

Get In The Flow

Persistence isn’t very glamorous. If genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the 1%. We love its flash and dazzle. But great power lies in the other 99%.

Be Persistent

Demonstrates how introverted people are misunderstood and undervalued in modern culture, charting the rise of extrovert ideology while sharing anecdotal examples of how to use introvert talents to adapt to various situations.

Quiet

Scenius are a group of creative individuals – artists, curators, thinkers, theorists, and other tastemakers – who make up an "ecology of talent". Pay attention to what others are sharing, and then start taking note of what they're not sharing. Be on the lookout for voids that you can fill with your own efforts, no matter how bad they are at first.

Find A Scenius

Audiences not only want to stumble across great work but they too long to be creative and be part of the creative process. [if book is the product then blogs could be the process]

Share Your Process

One day at a time. It sounds so simple. It actually is simple but it isn't easy: It requires incredible support and fastidious structuring

One Day At A Time

Our audiences a human one, and humans want to connect. Personal stories can make the complex more tangible, spark associations, and offer entry into things that might otherwise leave one cold.

'The cat sat on a mat' is not a story. 'The cat sat on the dog's mat' is a story. - John le Carre.

Our Work Doesn't Speak For Itself

In his New York Times bestseller Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon showed readers how to unlock their creativity by “stealing” from the community of other movers and shakers. Now, in an even more forward-thinking and necessary book, he shows how to take that critical next step on a creative journey—getting known. Show Your Work! is about why generosity trumps genius. It’s about getting findable, about using the network instead of wasting time “networking.” It’s not self-promotion, it’s self-discovery—let others into your process, then let them steal from you. Filled with illustrations, quotes, stories, and examples, Show Your Work! offers ten transformative rules for being open, generous, brave, productive. In chapters such as You Don’t Have to Be a Genius; Share Something Small Every Day; and Stick Around, Kleon creates a user’s manual for embracing the communal nature of creativity— what he calls the “ecology of talent.” From broader life lessons about work (you can’t find your voice if you don’t use it) to the etiquette of sharing—and the dangers of oversharing—to the practicalities of Internet life (build a good domain name; give credit when credit is due), it’s an inspiring manifesto for succeeding as any kind of artist or entrepreneur in the digital age.

Show Your Work!

Psychologist and prominent creativity researcher Dean Keith Simonton observed, "rather than obsessively focusing on a narrow topic, creative achievers tend to have broad interests. This breadth often supports insights that cannot be attributed to domain specific expertise alone."

Breadth In Knowledge

The successful adapters were excellent at taking knowledge from one pursuit and applying it creatively to another, and at avoiding cognitive entrenchment.
	In the wicked world with ill-defined challenges and few rigid rules, range can be a life hack

Learn And Apply

The more confident a learner is of their wrong answer, the better the information sticks when they subsequently learn the right answer. Tolerating big mistakes can create the best learning opportunities

Hypercorrection Effect

The best learning road is slow (facilitated by short term struggle but long term gain, and that doing poorly now is essential for better performance later

Deep Learning

Approach your own personal voyage and projects like Michelangelo approached a block of marble, willing to learn and adjust as you go, and even to abandon a pervious goal and change directions entirely should the need arise. Finally, remember that there is nothing inherently wrong with the specialization.

Don't Feel Behind

The #1 New York Times bestseller that has all America talking: as seen/heard on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS, Morning Joe, CBS This Morning, The Bill Simmons Podcast, Rich Roll, and more. “The most important business—and parenting—book of the year.” —Forbes “Urgent and important. . . an essential read for bosses, parents, coaches, and anyone who cares about improving performance.” —Daniel H. Pink Shortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award Plenty of experts argue that anyone who wants to develop a skill, play an instrument, or lead their field should start early, focus intensely, and rack up as many hours of deliberate practice as possible. If you dabble or delay, you’ll never catch up to the people who got a head start. But a closer look at research on the world’s top performers, from professional athletes to Nobel laureates, shows that early specialization is the exception, not the rule. David Epstein examined the world’s most successful athletes, artists, musicians, inventors, forecasters and scientists. He discovered that in most fields—especially those that are complex and unpredictable—generalists, not specialists, are primed to excel. Generalists often find their path late, and they juggle many interests rather than focusing on one. They’re also more creative, more agile, and able to make connections their more specialized peers can’t see. Provocative, rigorous, and engrossing, Range makes a compelling case for actively cultivating inefficiency. Failing a test is the best way to learn. Frequent quitters end up with the most fulfilling careers. The most impactful inventors cross domains rather than deepening their knowledge in a single area. As experts silo themselves further while computers master more of the skills once reserved for highly focused humans, people who think broadly and embrace diverse experiences and perspectives will increasingly thrive.

Bite-sized knowledge
to upgrade
your career

Tanzeel Haider
@tanzeelhaider

Learn How To Avoid Distraction In A World That Is Full Of It

Quiet

Show Your Work!

Range

Bite-sized knowledgeto upgradeyour career

Tanzeel Haider@tanzeelhaider

Learn How To Avoid Distraction In A World That Is Full Of It

Quiet

Show Your Work!

Range

Bite-sized knowledge
to upgrade
your career

Tanzeel Haider
@tanzeelhaider