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Comment on Jesus Marketing: How I Sold 5000 Books in Four Weeks As a First Time Author (With Less Than 700 Email Subscribers) by Taylor Pearson

That’s good to know, thanks for sharing.

Comment on Jesus Marketing: How I Sold 5000 Books in Four Weeks As a First Time Author (With Less Than 700 Email Subscribers) by Nat Eliason

For the KDP footnote, you can publish duplicate content, but you have to own it. If Amazon finds out that it’s duplicate content they email you asking you to verify that you own the rights to it, and you digitally sign a document and you’re good to go. This happened to us with the Become a Technical Marketer ebook

Comment on How to Improve Your Mindset by Taylor Pearson

Indeed. Old metaphors die hard I’m afraid.

Comment on How to Improve Your Mindset by David Petersen

Great read. On labor and leisure as a resource. I am a contract coder. Thanks to the internet I work remotely. Most contracts I inquire about are dead ends. Despite being qualified and at contract end you turnover code that works or doesn’t work; the interview disconnect is always because they don’t allow remote work. Feedback from my experience confirms that management today still believes if they don’t see you laboring you are playing. Fortunately there are a few heroic managers who allow r...

Comment on How to Improve Your Mindset by Taylor Pearson

Thanks for reading and glad it helped

Comment on How to Improve Your Mindset by bozo

Man, that paragraph about the perception of a challenge really clicked for me. Now I realize that most of my life I was trying to avoid challenges at all cost, or to minimize them by almost endless information gathering, and that approach brought me absolutely nowhere in life. Now that I know that challenges are the way to evolve, I guess I can even say I’m feeling kind of liberated. Thank you Taylor!

Comment on How to Improve Your Mindset by Taylor Pearson

I’ve used that one before I’m sure. One of my favorites

Comment on How to Improve Your Mindset by James Lynch

I’ve heard that “unfinished” reference somewhere before… “terminator mode at the 85% point of project completion”. (principle 20?) Take it outta the oven and put a fork in that baby – it’s done

Comment on How to Improve Your Mindset by Taylor Pearson

Thanks Marilyn! It depends on how you see the job. I find that it’s particularly valuable to be able to hold two seemingly contradictory notions in your head. That there is a sense in which the work is never finished and that it’s an infinite game which goes on forever and the sense that there is a finite game you can play within the infinite game which does finish at some point.

E.g. A book itself can be finished, but the change that book seeks to effect on the world is ongoing and unending....

Comment on How to Improve Your Mindset by Marilyn Wo

Great post Taylor! Have a question, when you say to “finish a job” and “effect” the world, how do you measure that and what does it mean to finish or impact the world? Or has it got to do with reaching your goals? Thought everything we do is evolving and we need to innovate to thrive. Is there such thing as getting a job done?