Site Updates by Corbett Barr on November 10, 2011

The Expert Enough Manifesto

The Expert Enough Manifesto is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Feel free to share the work anywhere, please just link back here if you don’t mind.

New: order the Expert Enough Manifesto as a poster at CafePress! Perfect for your home, office, studio or wherever you want a reminder about the brilliance inside you.

This is what we’re all about. Care to join us?

Expert Enough is here to inspire you to learn more, do more, be more.

Life is richest when we become good at a lot of different things. We think terms like “know-it-all,” “jill of all trades” and “renaissance man” are compliments.

If you agree, we’d love to consider you a regular reader.

We’ll be sharing tips, how-to articles, interviews with experts, case studies and more on all kinds of topics from psychology to technology, from food to fitness, from inspiration to perspiration.

Just enter your email below and click “Get Updates!”

Thanks for joining us! You can also connect with us on Twitter or subscribe via RSS to make sure you don’t miss what we have coming up.

Thanks Holstee for the inspiration.

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Jackie Lee November 10, 2011 at 7:14 am #
I LOVE this Corbett… are you going to make it into a jpg or something that can be easily shared on social networking sites? I’d love to share it!

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- Corbett Barr November 10, 2011 at 8:44 am #
  
  Hey Jackie! Thanks so much. To share the manifesto, just click the little buttons above (twitter, google+ or facebook) and share this post. Cheers
  
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Maria November 10, 2011 at 8:57 am #

Great Manifesto Corbett! Indeed inspiring!

May I ask how you designed it? E.g., did you use powerpoint, or some other program?

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- Corbett Barr November 11, 2011 at 9:51 am #
  
  I designed it in PhotoShop, just using one font at different sizes, spacing and weights.
  
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  - kasper November 15, 2011 at 3:18 am #
    
    and a ‘bit’ of inspiration from the Holstee manifesto…
    
    It’s good though.
    
    –kasper
    
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    - Corbett Barr November 15, 2011 at 9:16 am #
      
      Yeah, Holstee’s manifesto is great. It was definitely the inspiration for this.
      
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  - Michael Klusek January 5, 2012 at 8:59 pm #
    SImple is best. Steve Jobs would approve.
    
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Conni November 10, 2011 at 9:24 am #
Great stuff, Corbett. Totally into it.
I’m actually working one of those myself these days (got inspired by the Holstee one)

Enjoying the development of this blog by the way, as I’m launching mine next week aiaiai!

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Jeff Slobotski November 10, 2011 at 9:43 am #
Can I order this in a poster today!?

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- Derek Jensen November 10, 2011 at 7:42 pm #
  My thoughts exactly!
  
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  - Corbett Barr November 11, 2011 at 9:53 am #
    
    Hehe, hadn’t thought about that. If enough people ask, we’ll definitely look into it.
    
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    - Nick Tort November 16, 2011 at 10:52 pm #
      
      I think t-shirts are in order for this awesome design-wrapped manifesto. If you get enough people interested, give me a shot! I am building my design and printing business into a location independent business!
      
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Sean Davis November 10, 2011 at 2:51 pm #
Outstanding! You really have a creative mind. I’m digging this. Consider it shared.

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Jenna November 10, 2011 at 7:30 pm #

This is amazing! It’s a great reminder about living the life you want, instead of the one you’re told to live by others. Thanks for sharing it.

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Alban Brice November 10, 2011 at 8:14 pm #
Really impressed…

On Day 1 of your blog, I EpxertEnough in my blogroll.

Yesterday, I just published a post about this creative manifest on my blog: http://www.bredoualbanbrice.com/le-manifeste-dexpert-enough/

This manifest will certainly inspire me to create mine.

Keep Up to the whole team working on ExpertEnough!!!

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Dewane Mutunga November 11, 2011 at 4:17 am #
Couldn’t have been said better!

This just won me over as a reader. Looking forward to seeing this site grow and create more great content like this.

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- Corbett Barr November 11, 2011 at 9:54 am #
  
  Awesome Dewane, glad to have you here.
  
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Matt November 11, 2011 at 5:17 am #

I agree with those wanting a poster. Maybe something from CafePress?

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Taylor November 11, 2011 at 6:26 am #

I like it. It articulates what I’ve been trying to do the past few months, but hadn’t quite synthesized yet.

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Sergio Felix November 11, 2011 at 4:10 pm #
Absolutely LOVED this!!!

The Expert Enough Manifesto… I can see something VERY successful on the making here!

Sharing!!

Sergio

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Dilanka Wettewa November 12, 2011 at 1:32 am #
Corbett,

I am liking your new project brother. I will certainly hang out to riff and raff with you on ExpertEnough. Thanks dude

Dilanka

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Danielle Lynn November 17, 2011 at 6:47 am #
Love the manifesto! I feel the itch to explore and try out new things!

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Loïc November 17, 2011 at 12:09 pm #
Hey it’s really great! sounds like it appeals to tons of people don’t you want to release it under creative common license and share a vector version of it ?

I believe sharing and being open is the best way to reach the goals that you promote wonderfully here

I would love to print a large version of this one in my office and think it would be a waste to have to copy it and not share your credentials on it What do you think ?

Thanks a lot for your great work! hope you will want to make it available with a cc license

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Dave November 17, 2011 at 12:43 pm #
I’d love a printable version of this. Please?

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Corbett Barr November 17, 2011 at 3:12 pm #

Hey everybody, I just wanted to let you know that we updated the manifesto to be licensed under Creative Commons.

Feel free to share it wherever you like! We just appreciate a link back here if you don’t mind.

Cheers!

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- Loïc November 18, 2011 at 2:57 am #
  Thanks!! great initiative!
  
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Jeff Goins November 18, 2011 at 2:26 pm #
This is excellent.

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Shauntelle March 15, 2012 at 6:38 am #
I LOVE this because it’s the motto I live by every day! I recently had someone call me a “dabbler” and even though I think he meant it as a negative term, something in me heard it and perked up. It was like I’d come home and I decided it was time to own and respect my talent for “dabbling”… I’m a very proud “Jill-of-all-trades” and I find my wide breadth of knowledge comes in handy whenever anyone I know wants to launch into something new.

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James Woo November 2, 2012 at 8:57 pm #

Hi Corbett,

this manifesto is great. It taught me one very important thing. Manifestos doesn’t have to be multipage document.

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