Psychology 101
The Non-Procrastinating Guide To Taking Productive Breaks
Tell me if this sounds familiar: You decide that once and for all, you’re going to finish that thing you’ve been putting off. And darnit, you’re not going to leave that chair until it’s done. You open Photoshop/Lightroom/Word/Email, and after staring blankly at the screen for a moment, you start. For about twenty minutes, everything…
Read MoreHow To Request Something From a Busy Person (And Get a Reply)
This is one of the most important pieces of business + life advice I’ll ever post on this blog. I hope you’ll read and remember accordingly. As photographers, we can’t always go it alone. There’s too much to do, too much to know. Sometimes we have to ask for help, and that’s totally…
Read MoreA Business Lesson in Human Nature
More for adventure than education, I once spent a summer in Tunisia studying Arabic. After a brief orientation in Washington DC, I headed with a large group of soon-to-be classmates to the airport. Having traveled extensively before, I fearlessly marched through the airport in search of the right airline desk. Realizing that I had headed…
Read MoreHow To Live Your Passion: Stop Thinking ‘Familiar’ Means ‘Easy’
There was probably a time in human history when venturing into the unfamiliar was a bad idea. If you foraged for food in a forest, then yes, trying a new red berry that no one else ate was probably a recipe for disaster. We’re a little past foraging for berries now. And yet – people…
Read MorePsychology 101 | Why “Your Cousin” Doesn’t Disprove Science
This week we’re going to be talking about some key differences in marketing to men vs. women. But before we get there, I just want to make sure we’re all on the same page about a couple of things. Namely, what it means to even compare men and women. So first, let’s talk about toast.…
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