The Matthew Effect
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We all know that one person. The golden child. The one who seems to catch every break, while the rest…
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Controlling the Center
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Paula Modersohn-Becker wasn’t famous in her lifetime. She didn’t have galleries lined with admirers or critics writing about…
Premeditatio Malorum
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Centuries ago, Seneca sat in his Roman villa, eyes closed, conjuring every imaginable catastrophe. Not because he was a masochist,…
The Lindy Effect
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The Lindy Effect is the rule that says the longer something has survived, the longer it’s likely to keep…
The Halo Effect
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In 1961, Andy Warhol decided that a can of Campbell’s Soup was art. Not just a simple, functional object,…
The Sunk Cost Fallacy
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You’re staring at a half-finished manuscript, the cursor blinking like a metronome. Each blink taunts you. The words, the…
The Jack of All Trades Model
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They'll tell you to pick a lane. Find your niche, specialize, become the best at one thing. But…
The Zeigarnik Effect
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Ernest Hemingway didn’t finish A Farewell to Arms in one glorious sitting. Leonardo da Vinci didn't paint…
The Sprezzatura Technique
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Picture Miles Davis in a smoky club, trumpet in hand, eyes half-closed. The notes that escape his horn sound like…
The Power Law
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In the smoke-filled rooms of Paris, amidst the cacophony of clinking glasses and impassioned debates, a lanky man with a…
Opportunity Cost
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Napoleon Bonaparte never painted a single stroke, never penned a line of poetry, but he understood something that every artist,…
The Four Stages of Creativity
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A bearded Greek mathematician, belly-deep in bathwater, freezes mid-splash as if Zeus himself had whispered a secret into his ear.…