Your Weekly Challenge:

REMINDER: You don’t have to do the challenge! See it as an idea on how to spend your week more productively.

Read\watch more productivity focused content. At the beginning of the week make a list of productivity/self help focused content(videos, chapters of books etc.) you might like to read\watch this week. Commit to eliminating at least 1 piece of content from your list.

Your Weekly Inspirational Story:

“Grandma had a few of those Reader’s Digest abridged versions of books. […]

A year later or so, I managed to get my hands on the actual novel [He’s talking about the novel Jaws] , which was much bigger[…], had a lot more detail, was far more graphic,

and had subjects that were way above my 10-year-old, maturity level. It didn’t matter though. I read that book over and over and over.

And about that time, I begin to think about writing books myself.

[…]

A few years after I graduated and was already on active duty in the Navy, I came home on leave and was helping my dad clean out some junk in the attic.

I opened a box of my high school papers that I had written. I couldn’t believe I wrote these. They were amazing.

At the time I was languishing in the first few years of my Navy career, totally unmotivated.

At that moment, I realized I was wasting my brain and wasting my talent.

When I got back from leave, I signed up for a writing class with the University of Maryland. I got an A.

The professor would read my work to the class before anybody else. I started writing articles for the Base newspaper. I had finally found one of my talents. “

Source: www.thebossbuilders.com/the-book-that-changed-my-life

!!!- I advise you to write the answers down on paper, as they help you figure out stuff about yourself, which you might find useful later on!

Reflective-thinking questions:

-Has anything you watched\read before inspired you like how Jaws did to the writer? How?

Critical-thinking questions:

The writer claims that writing is his talent. Do you think some people are born with a natural ability to write, or can anyone learn to write well with enough practice? Why? Does this also apply to productive?

Your Weekly ‘Food For Thought’ question

What’s a piece of wisdom(random advice, quote etc.) that you’ll never forget?

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