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Seth’s The Practice: “86. Talent Is Not the Same as Skill”

04.05.2023 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

It’s insulting to call a professional talented.

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Seth’s The Practice: “56. Embracing (Yet)”

02.28.2023 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

(Yet) requires more.

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Seth’s The Practice: “29. ‘So Far’ and ‘Not Yet'”

01.30.2023 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Working with a growth mindset.

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What I’m reading:
Matt Walker’s Why We Sleep

06.04.2019 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

If Amanda Fucking Palmer has been “having a passionate affair” with a book—if “the information [in that book] is literally, physically, technically changing [her] life on a day-to-day basis”—well, I figured it might be worth a read.

And so far, it has been.

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Categories // Prattle Tags // amanda palmer, books, carol dweck, matt walker, procrastination, sleep, steel, ted talks, tim ferriss, what I'm reading

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Greg in front of a wall sculpture at SFO
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