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You’re never going to find lasting success until you take full responsibility for what happens in your life. No one owes you anything. Just as you don’t owe anyone else. Once you accept that fundamental truth and accept that you control your journey, so many doors that seemed closed are going to open up in front of you.
We can spend our entire lives—and many people do—trying to ignore something we’re actually carrying around with us every day. But you can’t hide from something you never put down.
Making boards with each other is a great way to get a lot of unspoken things out in the open.
One of the most important realizations I came to early in my business career is that I’m running through an endless tunnel. What I mean by that is I came to understand that there’s no “happily ever after.” No matter how many records I sell, cases of liquor I move, and hit TV shows I create and executive-produce, there’s never going to be a moment where I say, “Okay, this is the end of the road. I’ve finally made it,” and then take my foot off the pedal. I know there’s going to be another challenge right around the corner. And then another one after that.
Some people might find the endless-tunnel idea overwhelming or even depressing. They spend their entire lives working toward finally seeing the “light at the end of the tunnel,” so it can be difficult to accept that there won’t ever be one. But there isn’t.
Wow
If you don’t have the right people around you and you’re moving at a million miles an hour, you can lose yourself.
“To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.”
Interesting
You cannot construct a team and then expect everyone to instinctively know what position they’re supposed to play. That’s how confusion, and later frustration, sets in.
