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I’ll Be Awesome At Lots of Things, Thank You Very Much

Lynn Fisher
October 08, 2015

I’ll Be Awesome At Lots of Things, Thank You Very Much

A talk from &yetConf, Richland WA.

Lynn Fisher

October 08, 2015
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  1. FOCUS

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  2. SPECIALIZE

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  3. BE GOOD AT
    ONE THING

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  7. INTERMEDIA

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  11. CREATE ART IN THE
    SPACE WHERE
    DISCIPLINES OVERLAP

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  12. TRY

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  13. LEARN

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  14. BE GOOD AT
    LOTS OF THINGS

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  15. IS IT
    POSSIBLE?

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  17. SPECIALIZATION
    IS A GOOD THING

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  19. WHERE HAS OUR
    CURIOSITY GONE?

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  21. SPOILER ALERT

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  24. SPOILER OVER

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  25. “You’ll never be as good as someone
    who spends all their time on it.”

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  26. YOU DON’T
    KNOW ME

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  27. THAT’S OK.

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  28. “You don’t have to become a pro to get
    value from learning something.”
    PHILIP ROBERTS

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  29. WHAT DOES IT
    MEAN TO BE GOOD
    AT SOMETHING?

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  31. EVERY PROJECT IN EVERY
    INDUSTRY REQUIRES WORK
    OF VARYING DIFFICULTY

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  32. WHAT ARE YOU?

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  33. “A title has no business attempting to
    capture the seemingly infinite ways by
    which individuals evolve.”
    RANDS

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  34. BEYOND
    CATEGORY

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  38. YOU ARE NOT A PIE

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  44. THAT’S OK.

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  49. CREATE ART IN THE
    SPACE WHERE
    COMMUNITIES OVERLAP

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  52. LITERALLY
    EVERYTHING IS
    ABOUT PEOPLE

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  53. BRING YOUR WHOLE
    SELF TO WORK

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  54. “Do or do not. There is no try.”
    YODA

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  56. TRYING IS VALID
    AND VALUABLE

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  57. IT REMINDS US WHAT
    IT FEELS LIKE TO BE A
    BEGINNER

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  58. WE MAY FAIL

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  59. “You’re not a real ______
    unless you ____________”
    SOME JERK, PROBABLY
    NOUN
    ARBITRARY CONDITION

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  61. WE DEFINE WHO WE
    ARE AND WHAT WE
    ARE GOOD AT

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  62. WE DECIDE
    WHAT MATTERS

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  63. “Use what talents you possess: the
    woods would be very silent if no birds
    sang there except those that sang best.”
    HENRY VAN DYKE

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  64. PEOPLE ARE CAPABLE
    OF SO MUCH

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  65. TRY

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  66. LEARN

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  67. BE GOOD AT
    LOTS OF THINGS

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  68. THANK YOU
    Lynn Fisher @lynnandtonic

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