career
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You’re better off going into the wilderness
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1 min read
The game of goal setting is a choice. Instead of leaving your future to the whims of nature, you can create your own course and chase an ideal outcome. As Hunter S. Thompson advised: “a man who procrastinates in his CHOOSING will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.” Choice, however, does not…
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Too many interests, more than one skill
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2 min read
We need doctors who specialize in heart surgery and spend 100% of their time helping other people. But we also need polymaths (Newton, Darwin, Leonardo da Vinci, etc.) to combine ideas to push society forward. As Dilbert’s creator Scott Adam points out, achieving excellence is rare. If you want something extraordinary [in life], you have…
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Talent is overrated. Hard work, discipline, grit, and consistency are attributes that increase your chances of getting what you want. Luck is a matter of being specific about your goals and two, putting yourself in a position for good things to happen. It is the accumulation of small and steady risks that make the biggest…
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Making for the micro
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1 min read
People always made art. Now, we just make it and share it in abundance. But all the noise makes it impossible for aspiring creators to stand out. On the flip side, the bell curve is widening from the masses to the niches. We can build an audience around sub-genres at scale for the first time…