Posts Tagged with "trying new things"
Is It Time to Monetize Your Hobby? Ask Yourself These 3 Basic Questions
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Money isn’t everything, but it can help you get from Point A to Point B. When I was a kid, Point A was begging my parents for Littlest Pet Shop toys, which they couldn’t afford because they were busy putting food on the table. Point B was having the entire playset, complete with carrying case, […]
Continue reading...How to Be a Newbie: Advice from the Multipotentialite Community
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Wow, what a month. Thank you, dear readers, for joining us on Puttylike for Newbie Month this April! It’s been incredible to explore the act of beginning with you—all the joys, excitement, and pitfalls of trying a new skill or starting a new project. Your Official Guide to Being a Newbie We published some great […]
Continue reading...The Year of Getting Messy, and Four Things I Learned in the Sandbox
Tuesday, January 8, 2019
“Take chances, make mistakes, and get messy.” Gandhi didn’t say that; neither did Oprah. Tim Ferriss? Close, but nope. One of my all-time favorite role models, Ms. Frizzle, was an eccentric 4th-grade science teacher at Walkerville Elementary School. She drove her students around on a Magic School Bus, where they would sometimes travel back […]
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- The Multipotentialite Resume: Part 1
- How to Stay Calm when Giving a TED Talk (or Doing Anything High-Pressure)
- The Ultimate Guide to Dealing with Friends and Family Members who Disapprove of Your Multipotentiality
- How To Make Money as a Multipotentialite
- “What do you do?” How To Introduce Yourself when You’re a Multipotentialite
- Have You Made this Common Multipotentialite Mistake?
- The Dogged Defense of Mastery, and the Fear Lurking Behind it
- How Do I Know if I’m a True Multipotentialite?
- Why You Shouldn’t Finish What You Start
- Can’t Settle on a Niche for Your Business? Not a Problem
- Win a Free Ticket to Everything Conference!
- What Is Your Myers-Briggs Type? Is There a "Typical" Multipotentialite?
- How to Deal with the Fear of Being "Too Complex"
- The Infamous (Anti-)Goal-Setting Post of 2019
- My Experience with Chronic Illness
- What to Do with ALL THIS STUFF?! 11 Tips for Multipotentialites
- "Every time I'm required to specialize, I feel trapped"
- Don’t let anyone shame you for having a day job.
- You Might As Well Do The Thing: How to Make Decisions While Anxious
- A Simple Trick to Sidestep Your Self-Criticism
- Jas: Hey Neil - wow, I really enjoyed reading this when it hit my inbox earlier in the week - and it was timely. I've been wrestling with some annoying/...
- Maryske: LOL The problem is, that the present world seems to think that you can own everything. I've sometimes wondered who owns the copyright to a phrase li...
- Harald S.: "... to boldly steal how no man has stolen before." Thus alluding to the original series of Star Trek, I can, of course, imagine Mister Spock sayin...
- Neil Hughes: Amazing! I love it. And it reminds me that the Book of Eccelesiastes says "there is nothing new under the sun" so they were already worried about lack...
- Neil Hughes: Great idea, T! Bringing these critical and hateful voices into the light often shows them for being the paper-thin critics they are. That's amazing to...
- Neil Hughes: Ha, that's great, Harald! (And I couldn't help but think that a world expert on the physics of absolute vacuums could literally describe themselves as...
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