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November 01, 2015 13: Upside of Being Invisible with David Zweig
“These days we are expected to live our lives at the same time we brand the shit out of it,” my friend Stacy said to me last year. That sentiment stuck with me, and I haven’t been able to get it out of my head since.
Selfies, Snapshat, blog posts, Periscope, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter—when do we get a break to simply live our lives and do the work?
It can be a tough tradeoff to make—particularly to those of us who have chosen more public-facing careers—toil behind the scenes and risk obscurity, or obligingly participate in Social Everything to build our platforms?
It was hard enough for me to deal with daily life during the roughest moments of my 2013 pivot, let alone think about what to blog about during that time.
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36 min
November 01, 2015 Podcast: Upside of Being Invisible with David Zweig
David used to be what he calls “an invisible,” when he worked for a number
of years as a magazine fact-checker. “If you read a great article, you
never think to yourself, ‘Wow that was fact-checked beautifully,’” David
said. “I had this job where the better I did my job, the more I
disappeared. It was only if I made a mistake that people noticed me at all.
It was such an unusual experience.”
He sought to investigate what other professions and professionals share the
same inverse relationship between work and recognition, and found something
interesting: there were a lot of them, across every field and industry.
These were people who were highly skilled, had developed strong reputations
in their field, but who were not motivated by public recognition, nor did
the public ever really consider their work at all. Consider the structural
engineer to the architect, the sound engineer to lead singer of a band, the
production team on a movie set, hair and makeup people for TV shows.
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November 01, 2015 Podcast: Upside of Being Invisible with David Zweig
David used to be what he calls “an invisible,” when he worked for a number
of years as a magazine fact-checker. “If you read a great article, you
never think to yourself, ‘Wow that was fact-checked beautifully,’” David
said. “I had this job where the better I did my job, the more I
disappeared. It was only if I made a mistake that people noticed me at all.
It was such an unusual experience.”
He sought to investigate what other professions and professionals share the
same inverse relationship between work and recognition, and found something
interesting: there were a lot of them, across every field and industry.
These were people who were highly skilled, had developed strong reputations
in their field, but who were not motivated by public recognition, nor did
the public ever really consider their work at all. Consider the structural
engineer to the architect, the sound engineer to lead singer of a band, the
production team on a movie set, hair and makeup people for TV shows.
35 min
October 25, 201512: Belly of the Pivot Beast: On Bouncing Back from Zero with Adam Chaloeicheep
When is it time to wipe the slate clean and start over when you hit a breaking point in your career?
How can travel play a role in the reflection process?
How do you bounce back from zero when you have wiped out your savings?
What makes graduate school worth the time, energy and money?
How do you build a business, even when you don’t love the initial work that is coming in?
How can you embrace fear, uncertainty and failure?
Today’s episode features one of my closest friends, Adam Chaloiecheep, brand strategist and founder of ABC Design Lab. I hope you enjoy the interview as much as I did!
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33 min
October 25, 2015 Belly of the Pivot Beast: On Bouncing Back from Zero with Adam Chaloeicheep
When is it time to wipe the slate clean and start over when you hit a
breaking point in your career?
* How can travel play a role in the reflection process?
* How do you bounce back from zero when you have wiped out your
savings?
* What makes graduate school worth the time, energy and money?
* How do you build a business, even when you don’t love the initial
work that is coming in?
* How can you embrace fear, uncertainty and failure?
0 min
October 25, 2015 Belly of the Pivot Beast: On Bouncing Back from Zero with Adam Chaloeicheep
When is it time to wipe the slate clean and start over when you hit a
breaking point in your career?
* How can travel play a role in the reflection process?
* How do you bounce back from zero when you have wiped out your
savings?
* What makes graduate school worth the time, energy and money?
* How do you build a business, even when you don’t love the initial
work that is coming in?
* How can you embrace fear, uncertainty and failure?
32 min
October 18, 2015 11: How to Optimize for Revenue and Joy
How often do you come down with a Case of the Mondays? It can be a strange feeling to avoid your to-do list on a big project when you run your own business or side hustle: if you are the one calling the shots on schedule and strategy, shouldn’t it be energizing much more often than not?
However, for one reason or another, we often let fear and shoulds take-over (myself included) and suddenly find ourselves at a fork-in-the-road with projects we care deeply about.
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31 min
October 18, 2015 How to Optimize for Revenue and Joy
How often do you come down with a Case of the Mondays? It can be a strange
feeling to avoid your to-do list on a big project when you run your own
business or side hustle: if you are the one calling the shots on schedule
and strategy, shouldn’t it be energizing much more often than not?
However, for one reason or another, we often let fear and shoulds
take-over (myself included) and suddenly find ourselves at a
fork-in-the-road with projects we care deeply about.
0 min
October 11, 2015 10: Behind the Book: Organizing, Writing and Gremlin-Taming
HUGE thanks to everyone for all of the wonderful emails, tweets and comments about last week’s announcement for The Pivot Method. I think my emoticon-loving heart might explode from seeing so many exclamation marks in one week! As promised, I’ve recorded two very scrappy “podcast” calls for those who submitted questions.
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37 min
October 11, 2015 Behind the Book: Organizing, Writing and Gremlin-Taming
“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It
will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main
obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is
based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting
each stepping-stone just right, you won’t have to die. The truth is that
you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren’t even looking at
their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more
fun while they’re doing it.”
―Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
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