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The Anxiety that Limits Your Creative Genius

By David Robson — 2021

Many professions require you to think flexibly and improvise all day long—but constant pressure to be inventive could be holding you back.

Read on www.bbc.com

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Outthink the Competition: How a New Generation of Strategists Sees Options Others Ignore

A Fast Company blogger and former McKinsey consultant profiles the next generation business strategists: the “Outthinkers” “Outthinkers” are entrepreneurs and corporate leaders with a new playbook.

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Kaihan Krippendorff
2011
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“How to Be a Courageous Musician” | Avguste Antonov

In this broadcast, we explore how to be courageous as a musician not only in your artistry but in the business side of being a professional.

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2021
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07:38

Art Competitions Are a Pointless Waste of Time—Don’t Enter Them!

I personally believe that entering open art competitions is utterly pointless and will leave you feeling disappointed and pretty crappy. And why you may ask, do I feel this way? Four reasons: 1. They can be partly curated before you even start. 2.

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2019
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How to Be Competitive as an Artist

I used to hate competition. But now it doesn’t bother me. I figured out that competition was so unpleasant because I was focusing too much on everyone else. I lost track of me in the process.

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2020
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The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art

Rivalry is at the heart of some of the most famous and fruitful relationships in history. The Art of Rivalry follows eight celebrated artists, each linked to a counterpart by friendship, admiration, envy, and ambition. All eight are household names today.

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Sebastian Smee
2025
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#30 Margaret Heffernan: Collaboration and Competition

I’m joined by speaker, international executive and five-time author Margaret Heffernan.

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The Knowledge Project Podcast
2018
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Winning: The Psychology of Competition

This book is designed to explain why winners win, why losers lose―and why everyone else finishes in the same position time after time. Addressing the competitor―whether in sailing, tennis, golf, baseball, or other sport―Stuart H.

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Stuart H. Walker
1986
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Mind Gym: An Athlete’s Guide to Inner Excellence

In Mind Gym, noted sports psychology consultant Gary Mack explains how your mind influences your performance on the field or on the court as much as your physical skill does, if not more so.

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Gary Mack, David Casstevens
2002
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Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. . . . It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.

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C. S. Lewis
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