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The desire to be understood is the desire to connect, and wanting to connect made me look up at the audience now and then, and gesture, as people do in conversation. I realized: When you forget yourself and your fear, when you get beyond self-consciousness because your mind is thinking about what you are trying to communicate, you become a better communicator.
On Speaking Well
Peggy Noonan
Amateurs might lack formal training, but they’re all lifelong learners, and they make a point of learning in the open, so that others can learn from their failures and successes. Writer David Foster Wallace said that he thought good nonfiction was a chance to “watch somebody reasonably bright but also reasonably average pay far closer attention and think at far more length about all sorts of different stuff than most of us have a chance to in our daily lives.”
Show Your Work!
Austin Kleon
If you are not falling down occasionally you are just coasting.
Excellent Advice for Living
Kevin Kelly
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