12Mindful Creative
Being a successful creative entrepreneur is not a zero-sum game. Our success doesn’t have to lead to someone else’s failure. We can all share, give, and learn without worrying over scarcity of success. As Adam Grant says in Give and Take, “But there’s something distinctive that happens when givers succeed: it spreads and cascades.”1
Working Intentionally
One of the most impressive examples I encountered while researching working intentionally is Cal Newport, bestselling author and professor at Georgetown University. When you visit the contact page of his website, you’re informed that as of spring 2017, Cal switched from the publicity phase into book research phase, and as a result, he doesn’t accept any interview requests “with ...
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