I recently wrote an article entitiled “Making Time for Your Pre-work Rituals” over at Web Worker Daily. If you’re the type of person who goes through several routine tasks before you get down to work, such as cleaning your office or writing to your friends, the article might be of interest to you. Here are [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Creative Work’
Imperfection is no big deal
One of the books I enjoyed recently is “How to Self-Destruct” by Jason Seiden (I reviewed it here). In a short section of the book, Seiden discusses his four-year-old daughter’s philosophy when she’s trying something for the first time:
“If I can’t do it,” she says, “it’s no big deal. I’ll just keep at it until [...]
Lessons learned from carpentry
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I’ve always been interested in carpentry. I’m unsure what it was that initially drove my interest, but as a young teen, I was spending a lot of time looking through the Reader’s Digest Complete [...]
