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Self-Improvement
COLLECTION OF ESSAYS
66 entries filed under Self-Improvement
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Title
Date
Length
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My anti-New Year’s resolutions
2024·01·30
10 min
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The inspiration lie
2022·03·28
3 min
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One video, article or side project can change your life
2022·02·23
4 min
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How do you improve your skills or pursue a new career when you still have a full-time job?
2021·02·10
5 min
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Why you feel uncertain about everything you make
2021·01·08
1 min
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How to future-proof your creative career
2021·01·04
3 min
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It’s all a game
2020·10·27
1 min
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There’s more than meets the eye
2020·08·26
1 min
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In search of something slightly better
2020·08·26
1 min
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You could plan your life, or you could design it
2020·08·26
6 min
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How to be helpful
2020·04·06
2 min
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The new school is YouTube. The new student is autodidact.
2020·03·19
2 min
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Who am I trying to impress?
2020·03·12
1 min
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How to be a self-taught designer
2020·02·23
5 min
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The art of doing
2019·11·05
3 min
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The day you became a better designer
2019·03·21
3 min
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When pride is a good thing
2019·01·24
2 min
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No regrets
2018·12·21
2 min
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Dreams vs. goals
2018·11·29
2 min
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The best work I’ve ever done
2018·11·05
2 min
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Ask for what you want
2018·02·09
3 min
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Competing with yourself
2017·12·12
3 min
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10 monthly subscriptions you absolutely need
2017·11·30
4 min
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What Alexa’s not telling you: Observations from your robot assistant
2017·09·27
2 min
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Missed connection – we met on a street corner
2017·07·23
2 min
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Designers can write, too
2017·05·04
3 min
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Embrace the chaos, or don’t
2017·04·27
2 min
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The game of truth
2017·04·17
3 min
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Not knowing is power
2017·04·10
5 min
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A matter of self-perception
2017·03·28
4 min
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“Yeah, but I could have done that too”
2017·03·20
5 min
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The anxiety of alone time
2017·03·03
2 min
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Obsessed with the best
2017·02·27
3 min
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Could this be my super power?
2017·02·14
3 min
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Write to get ideas, not to express them
2017·01·16
3 min
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The anti-New Year’s resolutions
2017·01·05
8 min
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No Alcohol, No Coffee for 27 Months
2016·12·30
3 min
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My 23 Favorite Books on Creativity, Productivity & Life
2016·12·30
9 min
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The endless search for fame
2016·12·07
3 min
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Is the Ringelmann effect holding you back?
2016·11·21
6 min
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Love your haters
2016·11·12
4 min
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The power of saying “I don’t know”
2016·10·26
3 min
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Why do you work?
2016·08·23
3 min
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Why I Write
2016·07·18
4 min
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Creativity Is like breathing
2016·07·05
3 min
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How to get over public speaking
2016·05·30
6 min
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Work/Life Balance Is Bullsh*t
2016·05·09
3 min
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Be useful
2016·04·25
4 min
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