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Phyllis Korkki

The Big Thing

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A New York Times business journalist explains why it’s important for people to pursue big creative projects, and identifies both the obstacles and the productive habits that emerge on the path to completion—including her own experience writing this book.
Whether it’s the Great American Novel or a groundbreaking new app, many people want to create a Big Thing, but finding the motivation to get started, let alone complete the work, can be daunting. In The Big Thing, New York Times business writer and editor Phyllis Korkki combines real-life stories, science, and insights from her own experience to illuminate the factors that drive people to complete big creative projects—and the obstacles that threaten to derail success.
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285 printed pages
Publication year
2016
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  • Keisha Baldonadohas quoted4 years ago
    We may be too shy to tell other people about our creative goal, so no one even knows to expect something.
  • Minda Peraltahas quoted4 years ago
    Today we are pressured by social media to present an artificial self, in the form of posts and tweets, YouTube videos, and Instagrams. Some people mold and remold their online selves, the better to receive likes and thumbs-up, tweets, and other forms of approval.
  • b8826159080has quoted3 years ago
    139 “Kafka’s job, while imposing an onerous routine”: Ernst Pawel, The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1984), 174–75

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