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The Heart to Start

Stop Procrastinating & Start Creating

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It's a terrible feeling.

To know you have a gift for the world.

But to be utterly paralyzed every time you try to discover what that gift is.

Stop procrastinating and start creating!

In The Heart to Start, blogger, podcaster, and award-winning designer David Kadavy takes you on his journey from Nebraska-based cubicle dweller to jet-setting bestselling author, showing you how to stop procrastinating, and start creating.

The original and battle-tested tactics in The Heart to Start eliminate fear in your present self, so you can finally become your future self:

Tap into the innate power of curiosity. Find the fuel to propel you through resistance.

Catch yourself "Inflating The Investment." Prevent self-destructive time sucks and find the time to follow your art, even if you feel like you have no time at all.

Bust through "The Linear Work Distortion." Inspire action that harnesses your natural creative style.

Supercharge your progress with "Motivational Judo." Lay perfectionism on its back while propelling your projects forward.

Inspiring stories weave these techniques into your memory. From Maya Angelou to Seth Godin. From J. K. Rowling to Steven Pressfield. You'll hear from a Hollywood screenwriter, a chef, and even a creator of a hit board game.

Whether you're writing a novel, starting a business, or picking up a paintbrush for the first time in years, The Heart to Start will upgrade your mental operating system with unforgettable tactics for ending procrastination before it starts, so you can make your creative dreams a reality.

Take your first step and download The Heart to Start. Unlock your inner creative genius today!

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 23, 2018
      In this encouraging guide, Kadavy (Design for Hackers), shows how to jump-start one’s creativity. Kadavy uses material from his podcast, Love Your Work; entertaining metaphors; and vignettes from his life and those of a myriad of others such as a behavioral scientist, a board game creator, a singer-songwriter, and a chef to highlight the obstacles that prevent people from starting their creative projects. Original terms, such as “the Fortress Fallacy” (imagining one’s project in its most ambitious possible form before even starting) and “Inflating the Investment” (overestimating how much time and energy projects will take) clearly illustrate the thinking that leads to procrastination. The practical advice and techniques that Kadavy provides for circumventing distorted thinking and ego-driven insecurities, such as “motivational judo,” in which “you use the force of your own ego to kickstart your project,” make it sound relatively easy to start creating, but Kadavy is careful to keep expectations realistic. Reassuring reminders not to be defeated by discomfort, perfectionism, and the fear of others’ judgments, and to follow one’s curiosity and passion, round out this lively, motivating entry into the self-help genre.

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