In this episode I discuss how to handle haters when you have a personality-led brand. Fundamentally you must always give value to your audience. Is there a way you can use this situation to help the people who follow your stuff in some way? Listen to the episode here now – Remember to sign up to my …
The most important thing is that you see yourself clearly: self-honesty is key. There’ll be times when you judge it prudent not to be entirely honest with others. I don’t recommend you lie, but there are situations when the playing field is not equal. When it is advisable that you keep certain cards close to …
If you cannot be faithful to your own individuality, you cannot be loyal to anything.
Like modern politics, the corporate world is crammed with terms that either don’t mean what they are usually intended to mean, or mean something else entirely. An example of this is ‘creativity’. In the corporate workplace this word is chucked around with the same giddy abandon that monkey chuck feces around their enclosures at the …
Your comfort zone will kill you. So kill your comfort zone.
The terms introvert and extrovert are bandied around a great deal but I’m not sure how useful they are. I’m basically an introvert—I certainly was when I was a kid—but years in the game, as well as years of working in sales, have forced me to develop extrovert tendencies. These days I can walk into …
I have one very simple rule when it comes to arguing with people on the internet—I don’t do it. It’s a time suck and it does nothing whatsoever to advance me or my mission. Of course, I talk to people online the whole time. I try to respond to every comment on this site, plus every …
I am fucking awesome. Am I really, though? It’s a matter of opinion, I guess. Subjective. How is awesomeness measured anyway? There is not, as far as I’m aware, a universally-agreed scale. But none of that matters. The important thing is that I go out into the world believing to my core that I am …
I could never accept anything, you see. This is a problem. I believe that all human happiness—as far as it can be attained—is predicated in acceptance. If you could accept everything that ever happened to you then you might not be happy all of the time, but you would at least be content. Because whatever …
Everyone wants to be a creative these days. That’s why Soho offices with bean bags on the floor and white boards on the walls and pool tables in the corner, and free beer on Fridays, are filled with earnest millenials in designer trainers and thick-rimmed glasses tugging at their beards and harrumphing over this or that …
