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My life is over. I’ve hit the bottom. I don’t know what to do. Please help me. This is what Pema Chödrön told Trungpa Rinpoche at the end of her very first interview with him. The interview happened at a point in her life when everything was falling apart and she felt a complete failure. Trungpa Riponche responded with the following advice: It’s a lot like walking into the ocean and a big wave comes and knocks you over. And you find yourself lying on the bottom with sand in y

Ed Catmull, a co-founder of Pixar, believes that one the enemies of creativity is complacency. At first, he says, all their moves suck, so he sees his job as taking them from “suck to non-suck”. For Ed Catmull creativity happens in the unknown and in the hidden. When you’re successful you might be tempted to think you’re doing things right, and make the mistake of stopping asking questions. At Pixar, even when a film has been very successful they still subject it to strict s

We set up goals to achieve things that are important to us, but we tend to forget that goal-setting is a skill that most of us are really bad at. There is only one way to make ourselves better at it: by practicing, and that includes facing the risk of not achieving our goals. We aren’t good at goal-setting because we aren’t realistic about our time schedule, commitments, motivation, and the goals’ importance, urgency or alignment with our values. When we set our goals we’re t