The Upper Limit Problem

Upon Felicia Hatcher's suggestion, I've been reading Gay Hendrick's "The Big Leap." The main thesis in the book is that many of us live and work in our Zone of Excellence but we are blocked from moving to our Zone of Genius. In our Zone of Excellence we do work that we are excellently skilled … Continue reading The Upper Limit Problem

Commit to the Work

https://youtu.be/jEh94WFXZSc?si=sXTjDRYek_gnSHcN&t=3561 I listen to a lot of interviews with comedians. Comedians are writer-performers, and the good ones talk beautifully about tools of the trade. Writing and testing unfinished material on small stages is part of the process. They call this process "working out." The word "commitment" comes up a lot in these interviews. Often it's … Continue reading Commit to the Work

Trust + Faith

This one is a little note to self. I lose these things all of the time. So I'm putting them where I can find them. "The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them."-Ernest Hemingway"It's about Faith. It's about Trust. Yeah yeah." - Sade