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I got to hear my 10.5-week-along kid-to-be’s little heartbeat for the first time today, happily thumping away inside Kate’s tum-tum. Having spent all of my life before this as an outsider to this process, I was unprepared for how magical and significant it felt.
There are people who do things and people who don’t. We’re all overflowing with creativity, but not everyone ever does anything about it and sees it through to completion.
Derek Sivers recently posted an article titled Quit Quirks When Working With Others, and it made some good points about how virtues like “originality” can fail. He highlights how you’re sometimes doing everyone (yourself included) a disservice with your reinventions of “tired” concepts. By toeing the line of convention and saving your unique ideas for places where they’re welcome, you preserve what’s most important: Playing well with others.
First watch this. Then watch this: http://bit.ly/aSl4hA