101 Secrets For Your Twenties

by Paul Angone

But you have to be on the stage to win. They weren’t going to give the guitar to the bystander in the front row who swore he could’ve done it better.

We have to be willing to allow ourselves to write some terrible first drafts. You can’t have a good story without a good struggle.

I learned to get up early, leave my house, dress nice, and treat my job search as a job. If you stay at home and start “work” at 10:30 a.m. wearing your sweatpants, by 12:30 you might be downing a sleeve of Oreos and watching 23 Harlem Shakes on YouTube.

Don’t cram YOUR PLOTLINE into someone else’s story.