Please come to The Art of Doing Live at the New York Public Library, Mid-Manhattan, Wednesday Dec 4, 6:30 to 7:30 pm
We will be giving a talk on What it Takes to Be a Superachiever at the New York Public Library, Mid-Manhattan branch.
Wednesday, December 4th from 6:30 to 7:30 pm.
MidManhattan Library, 455 Fifth Avenue, 6th floor, free
Book sale and signing to follow
For more information and to rsvp, go here.
Momofuku’s David Chang has a nearly insane work ethic that rivals that of the late great Godfather of Soul.
Momofuku chef/restaurateur David Chang as illustrated by Scott Menchin
The Art of Doing Artist’s Interpretation Project is a collaboration between us and artists who depict superachievers from our book, “The Art of Doing.”
David Chang’s nearly insane work ethic rivals that of the Godfather of Soul. Working his way through some of New York City’s finest restaurant kitchens in his mid-20’s with cooks “as badass as Navy Seals,” Chang told us that he believed he’d never be a great chef—at least not in the classic sense. Instead he had to find his own voice. Every since he’d been a kid he’d been obsessed with noodles. So he quit his high-end kitchen job and went on a noodle quest, apprenticing himself to soba and ramen noodle makers in Japan. When he returned, he opened his first restaurant, Momofuku Noodle Bar, in a tiny space in the East Village no bigger than a one-car garage. His goal was to make a humble bowl of noodle soup made with 4-star chef technique. Continue reading “David Chang: An Artist’s Interpretation”
Forty-Nine Percent of job candidates never negotiate an initial employment offer. Do you?
Are you negotiation-phobic? Are you so risk-averse that in a job interview you blurt out, “Thanks, I’ll take it!” in response to whatever salary you’re offered? If so, you’re not alone. Even though many employers admit to lowballing initial offers in the expectation of a negotiation, many job candidates, it turns out, just grab the first offer.
Not negotiating, however, can be more costly than you think. In their paper “Who Asks and Who Receives in Salary Negotiation,” researchers Michelle Marks and Crystal Harold found that employees who negotiated their salary boosted their annual pay on average of $5,000. According to the researchers, assuming a 5% average annual pay increase over a 40-year career, a 25-year-old who negotiated a starting salary of $55,000 will earn $634,000 more than a non-negotiator who accepted an initial offer of $50,000.
And in a recent study to find out how many people on both sides of the desk do–or don’t–enter into the fray of salary negotiation, CareerBuilder, the largest online job site, found that an astounding 49% of job candidates never even try to negotiate initial job offers. Continue reading “Are you Negotiation Phobic?”
We all love to read books on success. We even wrote one, “The Art of Doing: How Superachievers Do What They Do and How They Do It So Well.” What we found about the successful people that we interviewed—superachievers in the arts, business, media and tech—is that they failed and failed often. And those failures were key to their success.
You voted, we got in! Join us for our talk on “Failure: The Hidden Side of Success” at SXSW Interactive 2014 March 7th—11th Austin, TX
We all love to read books on success. We even wrote one. What we found about the successful people that we interviewed—superachievers in the arts, business, media and tech—is that they failed and failed often. And those failures were key to their success.
But embracing failure isn’t always easy.
From the fear of failure that stops you from even trying, to the collapse of will when you don’t achieve the immediate success you’d imagined, cognitive attitudes to failure can destroy your ability to pursue you goals. The good news? If, like highly successful people, you perceive your setbacks as opportunities for self-education and motivation instead of events that will permanently derail you, you may surprise yourself with how far you can go.
Read Forbes Story here about our Art of Doing book talk at SXSW ’13.
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Photojournalist Lynsey Addario has focused on covering conflicts and human rights issues for over two decades. Her mission, she says, is clear.
The Art of Doing Artist’s Interpretation project is a collaboration between us and imaginative artists we’ve chosen to depict the superachievers we interviewed for our book using excerpts from the book.
When we asked illustrator and controversial cartoonist Danny Hellman to create a work of art about one of the participants in our book he chose war photographer Lynsey Addario. Hellman depicts Addario, a 5’1″ Connecticut native, self-taught photographer, as just a lens’ length away from Mars, the God of War himself, whose path of destruction Addario has unflinchingly followed for the last two decades.
Addario, who we interviewed for a chapter on “How to Shoot a Great War Shot Without Getting Shot,” has been a witness to devastation, death and destruction in Haiti, Iraq, Dafur, Afghanistan and Libya. Her photography has appeared in the New York Times, National Geographic, Time Magazine and other major publications and she has won a Pulitzer prize and a MacArthur genius grant for her work. Continue reading “War Photographer Lynsey Addario is on a Mission:
An Artist’s Interpretation”
Please join us for an upcoming Art of Doing Event.
BOOK TALK:
Saturday, November 9 at 5 PM, Woodstock Public Library, Woodstock, NY
Join us in Woodstock, New York where we’ll be reading from and talking about our book The Art of Doing. 5 Library Lane, Woodstock, New York 12498. Details here.
BOOK TALK:
Sunday, November 17 at 6:30, The Shala, Union Square, NYC
Join us in downtown New York where we’ll be reading and talking about our book, The Art of Doing, and how to be more mindful of some of the strategies of superachievers at The Shala, 815 Broadway, NY, NY 10003
BOOK TALK:
Wednesday, December 4 at 6:30 PM Mid Manhattan Library, NYC
Join us for an illustrated talk on our book, The Art of Doing. at the Mid Manhattan Library. 455 5th Avenue, NY, NY 10016. Details here.
Buy “The Art of Doing” here. Signup for “The Art of Doing” free weekly e-newsletter. Follow us on Twitter. Join “The Art of Doing” Facebook Community. If you’ve read “The Art of Doing” please take a moment to leave a review here.