Identity
- Your Project defines your Identity
- A manifestation of You.
- Engage yourself.
- Keep engagement.
- Find entertaining Project.
- Define why they’re so entertaining for you.
- Make Growth Fun.
- Your 4 Words.
- Define in 4 Words your 4 main Interests.
- Be as specific as possible.
- It will help you to Focus through Crisis.
- Because you’ll always remember what’s Fundamental for you.
- You are the Center of the Story
- Your Goal is to Grow.
- Learning will become easy & fun when you realize no one else’s opinion can infringe your development.
- It is not to say that no other advice matters, it is wrong.
- Your Public advice matters.
- Your Team mates advice matters.
- But they need to be Argument.
- Opposition without an Argument is useless.
- You are the Center of the Machine.
- Ask for Input.
- Ask for Insight.
- And ask for a detailed Procedure.
- Involve others.
- And see, who is truly involved.
Improvisation & Resilience
- Start with Anything
- In the beginning all you need is volume.
- Write with something pleasant.
- Start with the most agreeable project.
- It will help you develop your velocity.
- Velocity will keep you running.
- Practice Improvisation
- Create or Find Templates.
- You can find Character, Environment & Story Templates on this site in the corresponding category.
- Learn them by Practicing them.
- Try 1.
- Write a Short Story.
- Try Again, with another template.
- Write another Short Story.
- 5 pages should be enough.
- Always simplify.
- Simplification will develop your Resilience.
- Your anxiety will diminish by developing an habit of Skimming Information.
- Altern between short-term & long-term thinking.
- If an Information is not Useful immediately, it is not useful.
- Write your Short Stories.
- And think about general consistency later.
- Between Arousal & Control
- You need to be Aroused to write.
- Write about things that Awe you.
- Develop characters you can attach yourself to.
- Characters you want to develop a relationship with.
- Augment your sense of Control by practicing more.
- This way you’ll solidify your skills.
- Hone your skills up on every new project.
Clear Habits
- Acquire a new skill, Outside your Field
- Start with 5’/day.
- After a month pass to 10’/day.
- After 6 month get to 20’/day.
- Practicing a skill you enhances your Pattern Recognition abilities.
- It doesn’t have to be a Skill you need immediately.
- If you’re Writing you may want to Draw your Characters & Environments.
- It also develops a sense of Dedication.
- Planification & Predictability
- Having a Plan makes your day, your week, your month, Predictable.
- Predictability diminished hesitation.
- Less hesitation helps to removes useless Information.
- Establishing a Routine improves Consistency.
- Simple, Fundamental Habits.
- Try to develop 1 or 2 new habits per year.
- You want to make it as progressive & enjoyable as possible.
- Define these 2 fundamental habits prior to starting.
Simplicity & Focus
- All Attention into the Activity? It’s Easy
- Choose your Topic.
- Define a Page goal.
- 15′ = 1 page.
- 30′ = 3 pages.
- 90′ = 10 pages.
- It doesn’t have to be absolutely proportional.
- Make your Training as easy & simple as possible.
- Focus is easier as the Task is easy to accomplish.
- Treat your developments as a Composition.
- Add a small piece every day.
- Compounding works.
- Progressive Implementation
- Inner Resistance leads to Frustration (Anger), Anxiety (Fear) or Apathy (Sadness).
- Dispel Inner Resistance by incrementing progressively.
- If it’s easy you’re more likely to do it.
- Start with the smallest, easiest state of the habit you want to reach.
- ex: If you want to write 10 pages a day by this year’s end, start with 1.
- Write 1 page a day, and only 1, for this month.
- Then, the next month write 2 pages a day.
- And so on until the end of the year.
- ex: If you want to write 10 pages a day by this year’s end, start with 1.
- Complexity
- Complexity is often seen as an Issue.
- Being Overwhelmed by Information is a common problem.
- And this problem blocks writers.
- To get rid of superfluous Complexity, simplify your reasoning.
- Use only the Information you need.
- Information you use to solve your issues becomes Intelligence.
- Solicitate Information only if it solves your Issue.
- Everything else can be set aside.
Feedback
- How to receive Feedback?
- Process over Results.
- Become Driven by the Process.
- As the Process is what will make you grow.
- According less importance on the Results, means less disappointment.
- You are developing a sense of Long termism.
- You are broadening you Perspective.
- Listening to motivated advice develops your Curiosity.
- Your Persistence.
- It Lowers self-centeredness.
- Ask for detailed Feedback.
- The Process will gradually become the Purpose.
- Immediate Feedback – Ask for Feedback
- Have Feedback Partners.
- Having a Team will always be helpful.
- It will allow you to adapt your work progressively.
- Ask for Immediate corrections.
- Most of the time people will be Focused on Issues.
- They won’t tell you what works well.
- Ask them.
- What would they change?
- How would they change it?
- What will they remember from your Story?
- What else will they remember?
- How to make it more memorable?
- What would they add?
- How would they make it coherent?