by Elena Mutonono | Jun 15, 2017 | Business creativity, Teacherpreneur
“Knowledge can be a subtle curse. When we learn about the world, we also learn all the reasons why the world cannot be changed. We get used to our failures and imperfections. We become numb to the possibilities of something new. In fact, the only way to remain...
by Elena Mutonono | Jun 8, 2017 | Business creativity, Teacherpreneur, Teacherpreneurship
“Don’t ever lie to yourself.” I’ve always found this phrase mysterious and scary. It would caution me against something I had no control over or would not have been able to spot on my own: I mean, how are you supposed to know that you’re lying to...
by Elena Mutonono | Jun 1, 2017 | Business creativity, Teacherpreneur
Have you ever tried a bland dish? No spices, no substance, no particular color? Just a water-like looking soup with some food scraps swimming in there? Years ago I tried a soup like that for the first time – my brief initiation into blandness. In this post I...
by Elena Mutonono | May 25, 2017 | Small business story, Teacherpreneur
I met Veronika Palovska at the end of 2014… in the Udemy comment section to my first online course. A few months later she signed up for my newsletter, read all of my early-days blog posts on a wordpress template that would hurt your eyes even if you...
by Elena Mutonono | May 18, 2017 | Price setting, Teacherpreneur
Remember when you were a kid and your mom told you to eat something you hated? How did you do it? I’ve done it with my son to get him to eat green beans. I watch him reluctantly put a piece of a previously-chewed green back into his mouth, close his eyes,...