“Success motivates us, but a near win can propel us in an ongoing quest. One of the most vivid examples of this comes when we look at the difference between Olympic silver medalists and bronze medalists after a competition. Thomas Gilovich and his team from Cornell studied this difference and found that the frustration silver medalists feel compared to bronze, who are typically a […]
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“Mastery is in the reaching, not the arriving. It’s in constantly wanting to close that gap between where you are and where you want to be. Mastery is about sacrificing for your craft and not for the sake of crafting your career.” Sara Lewis “What gets us to convert success into mastery? This is a question I’ve long asked myself. I think […]
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“For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeteers, musicians and strange animals from conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conquerors rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. […]
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“For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeteers, musicians and strange animals from conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conquerors rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. […]
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“No one wants to be laid off; it feels embarrassing.” Author Gillian Flynn When Up in the Air hit theaters in 2009 it was timely because many people in America were experiencing being laid off from their jobs. The fictious character played by George Clooney tried to encourage people he was firing in Up in […]
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“There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.” Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl) More magazine October 2014 Tagged: Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, writing
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“I had always, always, always wanted to write, and pictured myself as an author. From third grade on, my mom kept those scrapbooks about ‘what do you want to be when you grow up.’ I always said, ‘An author.’ Either an author or a farmer. But that was my aspiration. I was a big reader. […]
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“I had this kind of 1930s childhood because my dad was really into radio serials, and my parents were also very, very anti-TV… It certainly was helpful having grown up with my dad as a film professor, and I studied movies and worked at EW for 10 years…If you’re wondering if I’ve always written dark stories—yes. Starting […]
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“I try never to go longer than two lines of action because I think the eye naturally drifts away. We all do it. You look at the script and there are breezy reads—Scott Rosenberg (Con Air) to me pioneered how to do a breezy quick read.” Screenwriter Sheldon Turner The Dialogue: Learning from the Masters […]
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“America was born as a rebel country, and Americans have always had a soft spot for the outlaw.” Professor Maurice Yacowar Married to the Mob by Mark Sauer One of my favorite discovers since starting this blog in 2008 is being able to find the connective tissues between ideas, scenes, ideas, characters and sometimes entire […]
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