The Heart To Start: Win the Inner War & Let Your Art Shine

N O T E S
Prologue
My conversation with author and entrepreneur James Altucher was on
episode 53 of Love Your Work.
http://kadavy.net/blog/posts/james-altucher-
podcast-interview/
Carol Dweck’s research on mindset shows us that your ability to learn new
things depends upon whether you have a “growth” mindset or a “fixed”
mindset. See her book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success.
Chapter 1
My conversation with Jon Bokenkamp, creator of NBC’s The Blacklist, was
on episode 93 of Love Your Work.
http://kadavy.net/blog/posts/jon-
bokenkamp-the-blacklist-interview/
Chapter 2
I originally learned the story of Helen Keller from Mark Beeman and John
Kounios’s The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain.
I later captured more details from Keller’s The Story of My Life.
My conversation with Jodi Ettenberg, a former lawyer turned food and travel
writer at legalnomads.com, was on episode 23 of Love Your Work.
http://kadavy.net/blog/posts/jodi-ettenberg-2/
Chapter 3
My conversation with Sean Stephenson, Osteogenesis Imperfecta survivor,
author, and motivational speaker, was on episode 73 of Love Your Work.
http://kadavy.net/blog/posts/sean-stephenson-interview/
My conversation with Ryan Holiday, author of Ego Is the Enemy, was on
episode 31 of Love Your Work.
http://kadavy.net/blog/posts/ryan-holiday-
podcast-interview/
Steven Pressfield presents his groundbreaking concept of “Resistance” in his
book The War of Art.

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Chapter 4
My conversation with Ian Leslie, author of Curious: The Desire to Know and
Why Your Future Depends On It, was on episode 95 of Love Your Work.
http://kadavy.net/blog/posts/ian-leslie-interview/
The story of Steve Jobs dropping in on the calligraphy class is from his
commencement address at Stanford in 2005. The full transcript is here:
https://news.stanford.edu/2005/06/14/jobs-061505/
You can witness my excitement, and screenshots from the launch day of
Design for Hackers, on my blog:
http://kadavy.net/blog/posts/d4h-is-here/