Here are a few proven methods to help you reach your highest potential.
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Kleios with Kameras
Kleios with Kameras is a series of portraits, to celebrate the people who inspire me, galvanize my spirit, and influence my creative work. Each muse in this series is holding a camera, it’s my camera, a symbol that connects them to me.
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Child Marriage is Legal in Canada
As a Canadian, I was shocked to learn that in Canada, a 16-year-old could get married, even though they are not allowed to vote, legally own property, or have credit cards.
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What Do I Want From Life?
What do I want from life? What can I do to make myself happy? These were the questions I asked myself. I accumulated things, got titles, and created wealth. But now I’ve realized that those were the wrong questions to ask. So what are the right questions?
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Do What Scares You
What happens when you wake up one day and realize that the one thing that always excited you has now lost its charm? It doesn’t bring joy into your life, it doesn’t get you in the flow, and it doesn’t make you jump out of bed.
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Think Big, Act Small, Start Now
I believe there are two kinds of people in this world. The first kind are the creators, they spend most of their time expressing themselves by making things. The other kind are the consumers, they spend most of their time enjoying the things that the creators make. Which one are you?
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How to Use the Secrets of Secret Societies to Promote Your Work
How can I expose my work to a bigger audience? I thought. Getting a large number of followers on Instagram was a complete mystery to me, I didn’t understand their algorithms, or how things worked. I was a complete noob.
So I wondered what if Andy Warhol was alive today, and didn’t have any followers on Instagram, what would he do?
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Judge a Book by Its Cover
Let’s face it, we all judge a book by its cover. Here, I invite you to help me design the cover of my debut novel, Brown Boy Barely Blossoms. Let’s have some fun!
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Only Fools Become Masters
How many times have you failed to try something new out of fear of being thought silly? How often have you censored your spontaneity out of fear of being thought childish? Consider for a moment the learnings in life you’ve forfeited because your parents, your peers, your school, your society, have not allowed you to be playful, free, and foolish in the learning process.
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The Power of Yet
As a child, I always wondered why some people got lucky in life, and others didn’t, then I discovered the power of “not yet,” and it changed my life.
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Walk Without Walkman
What happens when you walk alone, you and your thoughts, and nothing else?
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Where There is No Gift, There is No Art
We all go through cycles of disenchantment and re-enchantment with our work. When you feel as though you’ve lost your gift, the quickest way to recover is to step outside the marketplace and make gifts. Making gifts puts us in touch with our gifts.
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How to Win at Everything
Six months ago, I had a dream: to reach a wider audience. How can I entertain and empower people when no one even knows about my blog? I thought. Then one day, out of the blue, I got the greatest idea.
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How to Steal Like an Artist
I believe that we as artists are not the source of any of the work we produce, the source lies elsewhere. So then how do we get those ideas from that mysterious place? Well, we simply steal them like an artist.
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Where Do Ideas Come From?
Does creative block really exist or do creatives create drama to resist work? “I have no ideas,” an artist might say to themselves. So then where do all the successful artists get their ideas from?
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Do Your Morning Pages
Do you ever feel that you’re stuck creatively? You want to write or make something, but you have no idea where to start. You feel blocked. I’m sharing a proven technique that has helped millions of creatives, including megaselling authors and celebrities produce legendary work.
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If It’s Not a Hell Yes, It’s a No
What do you do when you have to make a hard decision? You get the advice of the people you trust and admire, you make pros and cons list, and you examine all your options, yet sometimes you don’t know what to do at the end. Here, I’m sharing a proven method that helps solve that problem.
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What is the Purpose of Life
All my life I believed that once I had enough money to sustain a lifestyle of traveling and exploring the world without working, I would be happy, I would have so much time to do what I really loved, and that would bring me true happiness. But when I got that, I still felt empty inside.
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How I Got a Photo Book Publishing Deal
My dream job was pretty simple: travel the world, photograph diverse cultures, and get a photo book publishing deal that gets featured in The New York Times. Very specific, very clear, but also very hard to achieve.
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Best Biography Books
This is a collection of biography books that I love, and highly recommend.
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Best Non-Fiction Books
This is a collection of non-fiction books that I love, and highly recommend.