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Doing What Works is a nationally-syndicated radio talk show that helps you fix what you don't like about your life.
Doing What Works
Doing What Works
17 SEP 2024 · Every time I sit down to write I think, “I’ve got nothing.” The same with the show: “There’s nothing left to cover.” Katie knows I power through anyway -- she helps! -- and we share how in this edition of Doing What Works.
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Rick Rubin’s https://www.amazon.com/Creative-Act-Way-Being/dp/0593652886 might help you trust what you already know.
https://stevenpressfield.com/blog/ might help you defeat Resistance, but the struggle will be daily.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265662/ might help you remember it isn’t too late.
https://www.instagram.com/annelamott/ might inspire you to see the value in not-at-all-perfect first drafts.
10 SEP 2024 · When someone who self-identifies as frugal offers to buy you a sixteen-dollar pretzel, wouldn’t you be touched? Katie was, but she was also sad. That was nine years ago, she’s still sad, and this edition of Doing What Works is a study in wistful.
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https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/05/clueyness-a-weird-kind-of-sad.html?
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kindergarten_b_1669877?
3 SEP 2024 · What strikes you about your scrapbooks, journal entries, or photo albums? This edition of Doing What Works is an ode to the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves.
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https://www.amazon.com/Body-Keeps-Score-Healing-Trauma/dp/0143127748.
https://www.thecut.com/article/memory-people-who-remember-vs-forget.html?
https://seths.blog/2024/08/the-mississippi-river-paradox/.
27 AUG 2024 · Letting people be is a superpower, one that’s put to the test when relationships end. We redefine closure in this edition of Doing What Works in the hope pragmatism will prevail.
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https://www.dailydot.com/pop-culture/let-them-theory-viral-tiktok-explained/.
https://www.reddit.com/r/quotes/comments/2knv2a/closure_isnt_something_you_find_its_something_you/.
https://seths.blog/2024/08/the-mississippi-river-paradox/.
“https://www.amazon.com/Eat-Pray-Love-Everything-Indonesia/dp/0143038419’”
https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/08/28/the-price-of-admission-dan-savage/.
https://www.amazon.com/Story-Structure-Substance-Principles-Screenwriting-ebook/dp/B0042FZVOY.
28 DEC 2020 · You don’t know what’s going to make you happy until you try it. The job or the relationship that looks good on paper may not feel so great at, say, ten o’clock on a Tuesday. That’s one reason to say yes to more things, so you can get a better feel for more things. Saying yes is a habit and a mindset. If you practice saying yes to smaller things with low stakes, you might find yourself more willing to take bigger risks. That’s what we hope to inspire in this edition of Doing What Works.
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Irresistible author Adam Alter [http://adamalterauthor.com/] was one of Katie’s professors at NYU Stern and “say yes” was his advice.
“I wish I might go back and do the little things you asked me to” is from a poem by Alice E. Chase [https://www.scrapbook.com/poems/doc/860.html] entitled “To My Grown-Up Son.”
Saying “yes” (and “yes, and”) is a rule of improv [https://medium.com/the-improv-blog/the-first-rule-of-improv-is-yes-and-30e5954240d6].
“If you can’t imagine any other explanation for a set of facts, it might be because you are bad at imagining things.” That’s from Dilbert creator Scott Adams [https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays].
“Marriage is a big bet. It’s the only bet of its kind, one in which you say, ‘This feels right; I think I’ll change everything.’” That’s from Jerry Seinfeld [https://www.today.com/popculture/seinfeld-turns-25-read-jerrys-best-real-life-lines-1D79884423].
Doing What Works is a nationally-syndicated radio talk show that helps you fix what you don't like about your life.
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