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Everyone around the dinner table had been brutally rejected hundreds of times. I was at a dinner with a bunch of people who had gone the self-publishing route via Amazon. All of them except for me were fiction writers and all had sold over 100,000 copies or more of their various novels. The guy sitting […]

Yesterday I pictured I was dead. I was flying from NYC to LA. I don’t like turbulence and there was heavy turbulence mid-day. So I have my anti-turbulence technique. I picture that I am dead. My body, no longer mine. My thoughts, all dispersed into the ether. My emotions, my anxieties, all brief glimpses the […]

[Expanded answers from my recent Q&A on Twitter] WHAT DO YOU DO IF YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT TO DO? Lewis Quartey ‏@lewisquartey: realised I have no idea what Im working towards with my life. What r you ultimately working towards & how did you figure it out? Answer: I want to make a comic […]

About a week ago I wrote in a newsletter that I was grateful for my daughter’s nightmares and I explained why. I then asked the readers to do me a favor. I’ve been trying to differentiate the newsletters by giving specific exercises that I think would be interesting. So after divulging my fetish on my […]

SHOULD YOU BE YOURSELF? Tania Hew ‏@taniahew: Interested in your take on advice to be yourself when seeking leadership roles/new jobs. Answer: Everyone puts on a mask when they wake up in the morning. They have different masks for different occasions. I have my father mask, my partner mask, my lover mask, my friend mask. […]

  [This week’s Q&A was so big I am dividing it into two parts. Today is part 1. To participate in the next Q&A please join me on Twitter on Thursday from 330-430PM EST] HOW DO YOU GET COMFORTABLE WITH FAILURE? Joel Englander ‏@JoelEnglander: How do you get comfortable with failure? Answer: Let’s define failure: […]

I’m pretty mediocre. I’m ashamed to admit it.  I’m not even being sarcastic or self-deprecating. I’ve never done anything that stands out as, “whoah! This guy made it into outerspace! Or…this guy has a best selling novel! Or…if only Google had thought of this!” I’ve had some successes and some failures (well-documented here) but never […]