Stage Name
What I Learned About Personal Branding When I Picked My Stage Name Maybe you don't need a stage name. Maybe you don't have thousands of fans who want to track down where you live. Maybe you don't want to create an entirely fictitious persona for fun & profit. But here's why you should still care about […]
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Work/Life Balance is a Scam. Seems like most people hate their job. Seems like most people hate their life. And it seems like they're trying to find happiness by finding a balance point between the two. In this way of thinking, however, this hypothetical person is constantly stuck between two weights that are pulling them […]
READ MORENew Jobs
Old Game♟ Imagine you've spent your whole life getting good at playing chess. Everyone you know plays chess. Your family plays chess. Your dad & his dad before him played chess as far back as you can imagine. Then you hear about a new game, Go. It's completely unlike chess. The rules are different. It […]
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If I were interested in making a quick buck, I might be telling you 3 "hot stocks you absolutely must invest in." I could tell you to buy a product that gives me a commission. Instead, I'm going to tell you the three things I've invested my time, money, & effort into that's responsible for all […]
READ MORENever Blame the Audience
Everybody's had a bad day at work. Usually that doesn't involve a room of 2,000 people watching you have a bad day. As an entertainer it's easy to tell yourself that it was the crowd's fault. They were too drunk. They were too busy texting. They were too this. Too that. Whose fault is it? […]
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How do I protect myself from tire kickers, time wasters, and energy vampires? Strategic hurdles. Have you stumbled over a simple request before? You might have tripped over a strategic hurdle.
READ MOREMagic of Success
Magicians are in the business of creating experiences that are absolutely mind blowing. No matter how impossible it seems, however, tricks work by making use of natural principles of nature. If you look at people who are massively successful, it can seem like it happened as if by magic. They started a company and *POOF* they're […]
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Standard Social Narratives Disney cartoons. Romantic comedies. Books. Family upbringing. They’re all selling you a story about how things should be; I call it the standard social narrative. It’s a collection of assumptions about how you should be, how others should treat you, and so on. It’s baked so deeply into our culture that it’s […]
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Extrinsic vs Intrinsic Rewards Extrinsic rewards are physical objects or tangible benefits bestowed by an outside agency (like winning a trophy or a gold medal). Intrinsic rewards are the feelings & emotions accompanying an activity for its own merit (like the feeling of accomplishment at the top of Mt. Everest). There are thousands of ways employers have […]
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