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What’s a bliss station? I’ll let Joseph Campbell tell you:
“You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning, you don’t know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody, you don’t know what anybody owes to you. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. This is the place of creative incubation. At first you may find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred place and use it, something eventually will happen.”
Kids, jobs, sleep, and a thousand other things will get in the way, but we have to find our own sacred space, our own sacred time.
How to Keep Going – Austin Kleon – Medium
Austin Kleon
Tips on Closing with Questions • For the most part, use open-ended “wh” questions, as these require thought and analysis. However, the occasional yes/no question can be effective if it is particularly thought provoking. • Keep your questions short. This gives them clarity and makes them memorable. • Ensure that all queries are closely tied to your main point.
World Class Speaking in Action
Craig Valentine
When companies run focus groups on their products, they often show me the positive feedback. I'm almost invariably more interested in the folks who've registered negative feedback, though I sense many product teams find watching that material to be stomach-churning. Sometimes the feedback isn't useful in the moment; perhaps you have such strong product-market fit with a different cohort that it isn't useful. Still, it's never not a bit of a prick to the ego.
However, all honest negative feedback forms the basis of some asymptote in some customer segment, even if the constraint isn't constricting yet. Even if companies I meet with don't yet have an idea of how to deal with a problem, I'm always curious to see if they have a good explanation for what that problem is.
Invisible Asymptotes
Eugene Wei
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