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Most highly successful people will underestimate how hard they worked at the beginning of their careers. Just like it takes an enormous amount of escape velocity to get a rocket to leave the earth’s atmosphere, the same holds true for any passion project, let alone building a career. Putting luck and circumstances aside, it takesContinue reading “Blast Off Vs. Orbit”

“If you do need to do research because parts of your story deal with things about which you know little or nothing, remember that word “back.” That’s where research belongs: as far in the background and the back story as you can get it. You may be entranced with what you’re learning about the flesh-eatingContinue reading “Exposed By Exposition”

“The opening night of Waiting For Lefty was one of the historical nights in the American theater. What happened was you were seeing theater at its most primitive. You were seeing it at its grandest, and most meaningful. After each scene the audience stopped the show, they got up, they began to cheer and weep.Continue reading “It Doesn’t Get Better Than This”

Sometimes you try and you fail. Good. You learned something. Trust that was what was supposed to happen. Go help someone else with what you learned. Sometimes you try and you succeed. Good. You learned something. Trust that was what was supposed to happen. Go help someone else with what you learned. Notice the twoContinue reading “Can You Find The Difference?”

“And the boy loved the tree…….very much. And the tree was happy.” -Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree “And…and you know what, maybe I’m crazy. But when I walk through a forest that I saved, when I hear the sound of wind rustling in young trees, trees that I planted myself, I realize that I haveContinue reading “As Lovely As A Tree”

“Sometimes the most powerful moments in a film are the quiet ones.” -Louis Malle For the filmmaker… A good discipline or practice is to go through every scene in the script and ask yourself the following two questions: Can I shoot this scene in one take? Can I communicate the story of this scene withContinue reading “One and None?”

“If you want to be given everything, give everything up.” -Lao Tzu “Being loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” -Lao Tzu Free-free, set them free (oh-ooh-whoa)Free-free, set them freeFree-free, set them freeFree-free, set them free If you need somebody, call my nameIf you want someone, you can doContinue reading “The Infinite Loop Of Grace”

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” -Lao Tzu “Past performance is not indicative of future results” is a common disclaimer placed on any investment solicitation. We can also apply this disclaimer to our own lives. What you did prior, your successes and your failures, your wins andContinue reading “Past and Future Performance”

“Excellence is a function of uniqueness.” -credo from Center for Positive Organizations at the University of Michigan “The great law of life is to be yourself. Though this axiom sounds simple it is often a difficult task. To be yourself you have to learn how to become the person you were dreamed to be. …Continue reading “How To Be Different”

“Thomas Jefferson kept a copy of Seneca on his nightstand. George Washington staged a reproduction of a play about Cato at Valley Forge in the winter of ‘77/’78 to inspire the troops. Patrick Henry cribbed lines from that play which we now credit to him: “Give me Liberty or give me death!” It is hardlyContinue reading “Recommit”