Just Some Thoughts
12 Days in April
Forty years ago on April 1st (April Fool’s Day), 1976, Apple was born. Most people know about the founders, the two Steves (Jobs and Wozniak), but few know about Ron. Ronald Wayne was the third partner who designed the company’s logo, drafted the company’s original partnership agreement and wrote the Apple 1 computer user’s manual. But after two weeks, he was done. April 12th he sold his stake for $800. If he’d kept his 10 percent stake it would be worth $63 billion.
Consider This
In the article 10 Rules for Making it as a Writer, author Dennis Lehane said his father slept through all three of his movie adaptations and hasn’t read any of his books and he’s fine with that and others should be too.
5 Questions to Stop Asking Yourself
Am I good enough? Most top performers never feel good enough. They have fears and doubts but they don’t let them stand in their way. They just keep working, doing and improving. Am I smart enough? Probably not. That’s what resources (i.e. libraries, people, etc…) are for. Am I pretty (or handsome) enough?
The Most Popular Day of the Week
Watch out Friday! Move over Saturday! After years of arguments and petitions Someday will finally be added to the week.
It’s Not You
Sometimes—maybe many times—you might feel out of sorts, less than, awkward or dumb because something doesn’t work for you, even though people tell you it should. Actor-producer-writer, Henry Winkler, was called a dumb dog (or rather the nickname ‘dummer hund’) by his German born father because Winkler struggled—suffered really—in school due to his undiagnosed dyslexia. He still rails against the injustices of feeling stupid for not knowing how to write or say words like ‘hypotenuse’.