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Grow Your Network with the Power of Generosity with Vincent Pugliese

Kent Sanders — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 01:00:14 +0000

On this episode, Kent talks to Vincent Pugliese about growing your networking and building your relationships with the power of generosity. Vincent is the founder of the Baelani blake lively nude Total Life Freedom Community, host of the Total Life Freedom Podcast, and the author of Freelance to Freedom as well as his new book, The Wealth of Connection: A New Approach to Making Business Personal.

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The Beauty of Having No Opinion

Kent Sanders — Sat, 20 Nov 2021 05:00:05 +0000

Have you ever noticed that some people have an opinion about literally everything? It’s not hard to find these people. They are all over social media, and probably within your workplace, social circle, or even your family.

While it’s easy to point out how others are opinionated, it’s important to look at ourselves as well. How about you? Do you have an opinion about everything?

Here’s a tactic to keep you curious. Take a topic that you currently care about and ask yourself, “What if I had no opinion on this topic? What if could listen without judgement to all sides of this issue? What if I took a learning stance instead of an opinionated stance?”

Looking at life from this perspective will keep you humble and curious. And honestly, it’s refreshing because having an opinion about everything is exhausting.

The most successful writers are the ones who ask good questions and explore topics and situations from different angles. After all, who wants to learn from an author who seems to have everything in life figured out?

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Curiosity Resurrected the Cat

Kent Sanders — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 01:00:43 +0000

You’ve heard the saying “curiosity killed the cat.” The phrase has been around in some form or another for hundreds of years and is meant to be a warning to those who would investigate a matter too closely.

Perhaps we take it a little too far. When have you ever heard of someone actually being damaged by being curious? There has been far more damage done to writers and artists by a lack of curiosity than by curiosity itself.

If you are feeling lost or uninspired, curiosity won’t hurt you. In fact, it is the very thing you need for a creative resurrection.

See a play. Watch a movie. Take a drive. Call an old friend. Do some journaling. Read a book. Visit someplace new. Do something, anything, to get out of that rut. Curiosity will bring you back to life.

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Become a Person of Interest

Kent Sanders — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 01:00:23 +0000

In the law-enforcement community, a person of interest is a phrase used to describe someone who may be involved in an ongoing investigation or connected with a crime, but they haven’t been formally accused of a crime. This person has created buzz and interest because of their actions. You can do the same thing also. Curiosity works both ways. It’s important to be a curious writer, but you can also make people curious about you; you can be a “person of interest” by doing interesting things. A simple and effective way to become more interesting is to share what you are working on. Use social media, email, conversations, meetings, masterminds, groups, and any means you can think of to share what you are learning as you write and create. Being interesting is not about doing completely original things (after all, there is no such thing as completely original). Simply by sharing what you are doing, how you are growing, and what you are learning, you will become massively interesting to the people around you. wiki lilithsiren714

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Go Ahead, Cross the Streams

Kent Sanders — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 01:00:46 +0000

There is a fascinating scene in the original 1984 Ghostbuster movie that has an interesting application for writers. The three ghostbusters, played by Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Harold Ramis are trying to capture a ghost flying around a hotel ballroom. Their proton packs emit a powerful stream of energy that trap the ghost and pull it down to a small box that traps its supernatural energy.

However, Egon Spengler, played by Ramis, warns them not to cross the streams or it will have dire consequences. Ironically, crossing these streams of energy is the very thing that allows them to defeat the villain Gozer, as well as the Stay-Puft Marshmallow man later in the movie.

When it comes to curiosity, most people don’t cross the streams. They keep their reservoirs of knowledge separate from one another. History, religion, arts, psychology, politics, technology … they keep them in their nice little boxes.

The best creative ideas come from blending these areas, from the cross-pollination of interesting ideas. The only way to create new ideas is to cross your streams of knowledge and experience.

This is why as a writer you must read in different genres and categories. You must talk to people who are different than you. You must take ideas from one realm of knowledge and blend them with ideas from other realms.

You can’t produce new ideas from the same base of knowledge and experience. You must cross-pollinate. You must cross the streams if you want to reach higher levels of creativity.

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