We’re at the halfway mark of Lifehack’s 12 Days of Giveaways holiday promotion and it’s been a great success so far. We’ve received plenty of entries with some great comments for each — it’s too bad we can only choose a limited amount of winners. That said, there are still giveaways coming each weekday until…
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The Value of Writing Well
It’s that time of year again. No, not “the holiday season”. I mean, it is holiday time, but for professors it doesn’t start feeling like holiday time until final grades are in and the books are closed on another semester. No, for me, it’s paper-grading time, the time of year when I’m reminded over and…
Career Change from the Inside Out
Pamela Skilling’s Escape from Corporate America and Daniel H. Pink’s The Adventures of Johnny Bunko I just read something scary on Twitter. Jonathan Fields – entrepreneur extraordinaire (I interviewed him on Lifehack Live) – posted about a conversation he’d had with a friend who “didn’t get how I could live…
Talent is a Myth
Scott H Young talks about something I happen to agree with whole-heartedly. For a long time since I was young I’ve been asked how did I become such a good drawer, that it’s such a gift. But I always say that I just did it a lot. This lie of talent, of gifted-ness has to be…
You Don’t Have to Conform to Be Successful
Your best friend loves playing baseball. He’s good at it and looks likely to make it to near-professional level one day. You’re a total klutz at the game. You don’t enjoy it, but you keep trying because your friend is so keen. He does his best to help you, but however hard you try, you…
What it takes to be great
“Natural talent” vs “Practice makes perfect” always strikes me as a question when looking at career development and hiring. Geoffrey Colvin at Fortune Magazine writes a great article with set of real examples on targeted natural gifts doesn’t exist, but consistent practice is what makes people great: What makes Tiger Woods great? What made Berkshire Hathaway…
My Employer, My New World Teacher
Last week Thursday, I challenged you to consider how you can best take advantage of our “New World” of learning opportunities. The possibilities waiting for you are extraordinary. I asked you to reflect back on when you feel you have learned best, so you can rally together those lessons-learned about when you have been a…
Talent vs. Practice
Practice makes perfect, or raw talent means everything? This is the question that pops up in my mind in a while when interviewing candidates, and look at the direction of my career. A article called, Talent vs. Practice references couple of researches and experiments on topics of experts do they born with more natural talents, or…
