Member+ or What Has Nate Been Up To?
We’re running a special program called JumpStart for Spring 2019 Click here to view details What is a membership site? What is recurring revenue?It’s been a while since I’ve done a life update. What am I working on? The answer lies above. Just over a...
Minimalists Revolt: Cal Newport on Saving our Digital Discourse
Last Monday I entered a wide corporate lobby with marbled floors and an imposing security desk. In midtown Manhattan on the second floor lies a kind of open floor plan tech campus home of Company. The backdrop of the event’s stage were gilded age windows...
Interview with Molly Sonsteng Tapping into deep work and removing distractions while living a creative life
http://traffic.libsyn.com/natecooper/Molly_Sonsteng_v1a_-_61918_4.57_PM.mp3 In this episode of Cut Your Learning Curve I interviewed Molly Sonsteng. Listen to the episode her or subscribe on iTunes. Molly is a producer, project manager, and entrepreneur dedicated to...
The Edge of Tomorrow: Streaks, Failure & Learning How to Learn with Juvoni Beckford
In this episode of Cut Your Learning Curve, I speak with my friend Juvoni Beckford. Juvoni grew up in the Bronx. At a young age, Juvoni recognized the patterns that kept people from in his environment from reaching their full potential. Through a lot of hard work and...
Imposter Syndrome and Removing the Roadblocks
“Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.” Thomas Carlyle I think about this quote a lot when I sit down to write. Or rather sometimes when I don’t. It’s because I struggle with what might be called writers block but is...
Technomindfulness: The Art of Silence (Medium)
For the past several weeks I have been conducting an experiment on the relationship between myself and my phone. It is not a new device or anything super fancy. (It’s an iPhone 8 I believe). Each day, I prep my phone to manage how I want it to interrupt my day. I do...
Cut Your Learning Curve: Is Learning Problem Solving?
New Podcast! Cut Your Learning Curve: Hack Your Brain to Learn Skills, Increase Your Potential, and Get The Life You Want Available today! Subscribe now on iTunes or Google Play Is Learning Problem Solving? Over the past 7 years as I’ve been teaching people how...
How to Learn Anything
One thing I’ve learned in my experience teaching adults is that we don’t often stop to ask ourselves when we have learned something. This is one reason I think that people tend to sign up to take a class. They want someone (hopefully an expert) to tell them that they...
Being Growth Mindset-Oriented Doesn’t Mean You are Always Happy
Carol Dweck, an accomplished psychologist and professor of psychology identified in her book Mindset two approaches to what I would call problem solving. There is the fixed mindset approach and a growth mindset approach. When confronted with a challenge, someone in...
Territorial versus Action Mindset
In the past few weeks as I’ve travelled back and forth between Los Angeles and New York, I’ve found myself in several conversations and activities centered around agency. While these different practices all have unique lexicons, whether it be through the...
Blaming Ourselves for Poor Design
Do you want to change the world? It starts with stopping. You have to stop complaining. You have to stop looking for answers outside of yourself. You have to listen and pay attention to what you want and what you’re capable of. Too often we feel simultaneously...About Nate
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