Self-Improvement - The DESK Magazine (Page 5)

Is the Ringelmann effect holding you back?

In 1913, a guy named Max Ringelmann noticed something strange about humans. Ringelmann, a French agricultural engineer, took a rope and asked individual people to pull on it.

by Tobias van Schneider

Love your haters

I’ve always struggled with haters. I grew up trying to be friends with everyone, trying to appeal to everyone with who I am and the work I do. The older I get, the more I understood that these things are impossible. There will be always someone who is against

by Tobias van Schneider

The power of saying “I don’t know”

It feels good to say that. I used to speak at a lot of conferences, and at most of them there would be a Q&A session at the end. The questions were usually not a problem, but here and there I would get a question I just didn’t know the answer to, at least not at the time. I always struggled with

by Tobias van Schneider

Why do you work?

I recently wrote a piece called “Work/Life Balance is Bullshit,” [https://medium.com/desk-of-van-schneider/work-life-balance-is-bullshit-f51bf8b3767#.ih5vs5qnj] which turned out to be more controversial than I anticipated. To sum it up, I believe that work isn’t the negative thing our “live for the weekend” culture makes it out to

by Tobias van Schneider

Why I Write

I thought about this question a lot in the last couple weeks. All I know is that writing had a huge impact on my life. And the more I thought about it, the more I found out what exactly writing did to me as a person and my career as

by Tobias van Schneider

Creativity Is like breathing

The author of the Oatmeal recently published a comic strip called "Creativity is like breathing" [http://theoatmeal.com/comics/creativity] and it was one of the best things I've seen on the Internet in a while, so I wanted to share it with you here. The

by Tobias van Schneider

How to get over public speaking

In the last two years (this was written in 2016) I've stood on many stages around the world giving 30+ talks in more than 25 cities. I'm only counting the talks within the last 2-3 years, because those are the only ones I gave in English, my second language. That doesn't make me an expert, but there