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When you beat the money game, you get to go on side quests. Unless, of course, your goal is to make even more money. Then you re-start the game on hard mode and play again. To try to 10x or 20x your money.
That’s what it feels like Elon Musk is doing. He beat the game three times over and is back for a fourth. I mean, he did tell Joe Rogan that he believes we live in a computer simulation. To me though, all his
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How You Test Ideas Determines Your Success
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Michael Jordan said “I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”
On the surface that sounds like a quote about perseverance, but it’s really not. It’s a quote about systems.
In business and art, the winners rarely have the most resources. If that were the case, why did Apple—a company started in a garage—beat IBM at personal computers in the early 80s? IBM had
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Why the Powerful Work Like Lions
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A kind of panic sets in once you’ve leveled-up your earning power.
Your first taste of it comes in your teenage years when you’re working at McDonald’s or the ice cream shop. You start in the kitchen flipping burgers or at the cash register. Then a couple weeks or months in you get promoted to assistant shift manager. The nametag or tie changes color.
And suddenly you’re doing less work, but you feel
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Why Good Ideas Need Great Names
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Austin Kleon said “an idea is gold only if you name it.” I think he understood that ideas are a dime a dozen. And that the value is not in the idea itself but in the execution.
Part of the execution lies in the name you give it. Because really, most of the time the only protection you have from someone stealing it is the trademark on the name. A brand name becomes the fence you put around your land to mark it
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To Improve Your Life, Stop Trying to Improve Yourself
Instead, focus on finding those who already see your value.
In 2019 I had just gotten out of a toxic relationship. It took me another six months to get past the love hangover.
At the same time, my finances were also shaky. The freelance gigs dried up, and I had to get a nine-to-five.
Needless to say, it felt like the end of an era. For years I had been working so hard for certain things, and they hadn’t materialized. My life was headed in the wrong direction.
As a self-proclaimed
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The Surest Path to Business Profits Is Always the Longer One
Note: This post was originally published on Medium on November 19th, 2020.
Your profits never come from the same place as your recognition.
All warfare is based on deception. — Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Comparing business to warfare is very cliché. But there is a reason that things become cliché: they have a truth to them that endures.
The boardroom does in fact resemble the battlefield. But in business, the most important war you’ll fight won’t be with competitors or with
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How to Find your Tribe to Find Success with Jessica Hagy
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Illustrator and Writer Jessica Hagy helps us decode the process of finding our tribe. Because if you're an entrepreneur, or an artist, or simply a professional trying to leave your mark, your tribe is the canvas on which your masterpiece lives.
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