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PRIORITIZE YOUR HEALTH.
BE AROUND OTHER JEDIS.
BE OPEN-MINDED
But be willing to open your mind and look at why the other side thinks the way they do. It’s never for the reasons you think.
“If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.”
“Amazing” to me.
“Never do something for the money,” Coolio told me. “Or the girls,” he added.
act of visualizing something, coming up with an idea or a theory of why it might be true, and then figuring out how to prove that theory.
Visualize a possible universe. Prove that it can happen.
“The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.”
Good entrepreneurs learn by solving difficult problems.
persistence + love = abundance.
Since wealth comes to those who create wealth for others.
“You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse.”
“It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don’t know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive.”
Take a camera. Make a YouTube video. Make 100 YouTube videos. Now you have a show. All by yourself.
My biggest mistake is probably] weighing too much on someone’s talent and not someone’s personality.
In order to choose yourself, you have to make sure you have completely surrounded yourself with others willing to take the same leaps. Else you will all fall into the ravine you are leaping over.
To try and improve in these areas 1% a day.
I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.”
A small level of fear is motivational.
forces me to have a backup plan.
endeavor
two questions: “What is my plan B?” and “What is my evil plan?”
“Life is too short for long-term grudges.”
I don’t want to make the same mistake again.
You never know what you find when you experiment. But it’s always fun and scary and good practice for getting out of the comfort zone.
I just want to be a little better today.
I think it’s never too late to do what you love. What you love is always on the shore, waiting for you to arrive, waiting with open arms.
Andy Weir’s book, The Martian.
“It taught me that the tough thing is figuring out what questions to ask, but that once you do that, the rest is really easy.”
It’s about not letting anyone tell you that you can’t.
It’s about maneuvering around “can’t,” no matter what the risk.
It’s about having a ba...
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It’s about health, to prepare you for the war a...
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It’s scary and exhilarating, and requires you to take action, and req...
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Because nobody knows better than you what will set your life on fire and what will lift...
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If you want to make someone thing preserve, do it with people who want the same thing.
They stepped out of there comfort zone. They learned multiple things under the umbrella they loved: music. It caused large amounts of new ideas after hearing and practicing all these different type of music. They were good at every type of music - which made the, excellent in music.
Want to learn about painting?
Draw good enough
Color good enough
Trace good enough
And you will be excellent in painting instead of being excellent in the one thing:painting. You will not be known as someone who paints but as an overall artist.
Go out of your comfort zone and draw in balcony and white instead of color. You will gain inspiration.
Be good at little things to be excellent in them.
They were “good” at EVERY style of music and thus became the GREATEST at the intersection of all of those styles.
but by combining passions, it’s much easier to be the greatest in the world at the intersections of those passions (because there are billions of things that can intersect, you can find your own place in the “long tail of passion” to be the master of).
It will take time. It will take more than one year. It will take 10. It will take rejection. People won’t like what you have at the start. Instead of being mad ask them why. See how you could improve. That will take more than 10 years. It will take patience. But I could do it. I do it all the time in doctors office anyways.
It was several years of playing before they started hitting the charts and several more before they were touring and making good money.
My theory always in any career is that it takes one to three years to do the studying required. About two years before you are making any money at the new career. Three to four years before you are making a living from it and five to six years before you are killing it.
In order to make a masterpiece you need more than just you.
Take any opportunity you have. Also shown in “the richest man in babalon.” The goddess of luck is giving you this opportunity, take it or you will never see it again.
The just kept saying “yes,” even if it meant playing to crowds of just four or five people.
They made over $600 million on their last tour. They form a company at the beginning of each tour and collect all the revenues of the tour, including sponsorships, tickets, clothing, record sales, etc.
But I’m fascinated by their longevity, the birth of their creativity, the glue that stuck them together and propelled them from despair to success, and ultimately the magic of creativity that infects anyone who reaches the status they reached. I hope one day in my own way to achieve a tiny sliver of that.
He brought people from different counties together as one.
