The Art of Work: A Proven Path to Discovering What You Were Meant to Do

How do you find these people? Where do they come from? It’s hard to tell. Likely they’ll surpri ...

The Resurgence of Apprenticeship In East Hampton, New York, Ellen Frank is reviving a practice the wor ...

piece using the illumination project.^4 While designing the invitation to a celebration party for the exh ...

anticipation, like “this is the magic moment,” she helps you feel the significance of what you’re ...

is over. The experience is a taste of employment that not only adds value to the company but ...

Use Your Environment: The Steve Jobs Strategy Every place you go, every person you meet, every job you have ...

some point, though, something unexpected appears and changes everything. And often that something is a ...

drop out after six months. Sleeping on the floors of friends’ dorm rooms, he stayed on campus and continued ...

From Apprentice to Master When Ginny Phang’s boss saw her on a full-page feature in the national newspapers ...

itself. At the times when you feel stuck, the right thing to do is take a risk and go “all in” ...

“At five years old, I wanted to be a dancer and a business woman,” Ginny wrote me in an e-ma ...

THREE Painful Practice When Trying Isn’t Good Enough Always do more than is required of you. —GEORGE S. PATTON ...

Your calling is not always easy. It will take work. Practice can teach you what you are and are not meant ...

“I only have four more years of entertainment in my life,” she told a local newspaper just ...

starstruck in the presence of Victoria Beckham, who was a guest judge that day. Later she told a ...

The Myth of Talent It’s a typical story. If you’re familiar with any talent show, you know it well. You ...

thick Scottish accent, modest appearance, and a bit of an attitude, Susan was not what ...

what we used to think of as natural talent is, in fact, the result of good old-fashioned practi ...

Or is there a deeper question we ought to be asking? We all know someone whose passion exceeds their skil ...

like I was doing my best. But it wasn’t. I was confusing my understanding of ability with what was actua ...