At Uber, we say, 'Always be hustling.' Even if you are an introvert and you haven't got hustle in you, you better get a co-founder who does. And if you haven't got enough hustle to find a co-founder who's got hustle, it's going to be tough. You've got to have a little hustle in you.
A lot of people hustle differently, and I was like, 'You know what, let me hustle and create, and let me have something to show,' cuz my hustle led to opportunity.
Teaching and writing are separate, but serve/feed one another in so many ways. Writing travels the road inward, teaching, the road out - helping OTHERS move inward - it is an honor to be with others in the spirit of writing and encouragement.
Teaching English and teaching Writing are two separate things.
I loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers - teaching, writing, and my family.
I love teaching creative writing, and I think I'm good at it, but in a different life, I could have been teaching elementary school.
Every night, I try to hustle and do what I can do. And when you hit a ground ball, you should hustle.
My key to surviving and winning is hustle. I think once you lose your hustle, you lost everything.
Theres a lot of females that hustle, just like men hustle.
There's a lot of females that hustle, just like men hustle.
Teaching well draws from the same well that writing draws from: the reserves of compassion and ability to listen and concentrate on another. So I have to have fine line between teaching and writing. I try not to ever think of career. I just try to go to the dream world every day.
Unnecessary hustle is one of the American follies. We hustle at both work and play, and consequently enjoy neither to the utmost.
I most definitely respect Jay Z hustle and everything he built. He's a businessman first and I think he respects my hustle.
Part of the fun of writing, touring, teaching, is engaging with real people about all of it: what to do now, how to build a movement, of approaches to teaching, of parenting - it's exciting to be in that dialogue.
With almost every book I've written, my secret target audience is the young therapist. In this way, I am staying in my professorial role; I'm writing teaching stories and teaching novels.
I haven't taught creative writing all that much (my CW teaching consists of a few summer workshops for elementary school children and an eight-week class for older adults), and I don't really know what my teaching style is yet.