1. ~get real-world experience: Get out of the hypercompetitive “life hack” frame of mind. you. Don’t worry about your friends “beating” you or “getting somewhere” ahead of you. Get out into the real dirt world and start failing. P 6
2. Adversity. Everybody spends their life trying to avoid it. Me too. But the best things that ever happened to me came during the times when the shit hit the fan and I had nothing and nobody to help me. Who are you really? What do you really want? Get out there and fail and find out. P 6
3. ~only bet on myself. I believe in investing in your heart. ~follow your star and do what the Muse tells you. It’s amazing how a good day’s work will get you right back to feeling like yourself. P 8-9
4. The disease of our times is that we live on the surface. We’re like the Platte River, a mile wide and an inch deep. I always say, “If you want to become a billionaire, invent something that will allow people to indulge their own Resistance.” Somebody did invent it. It’s called the Internet. Social media. That wonderland where we can flit from one superficial, jerkoff distraction to another, always remaining on the surface, never going deeper than an inch.
Real work and real satisfaction come from the opposite of what the web provides. They come from going deep into something—and staying there for a long, long time. P 9
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Pressfield
https://www.amazon.com/Steven-Pressfield/e/B000AQ8R8Q
STEVEN PRESSFIELD has made a professional life in five different writing arenas—advertising, screenwriting, fiction, narrative nonfiction, and self-help. He is the best-selling author of The Legend of Bagger Vance, Gates of Fire, The Afghan Campaign, and The Lion’s Gate, as well as the cult classics on creativity, The War of Art, Turning Pro, and Do the Work. His Wednesday column on stevenpressfield.com is one of the most popular series about writing on the web.
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2. Adversity. Everybody spends their life trying to avoid it. Me too. But the best things that ever happened to me came during the times when the shit hit the fan and I had nothing and nobody to help me. Who are you really? What do you really want? Get out there and fail and find out. P 6
3. ~only bet on myself. I believe in investing in your heart. ~follow your star and do what the Muse tells you. It’s amazing how a good day’s work will get you right back to feeling like yourself. P 8-9
4. The disease of our times is that we live on the surface. We’re like the Platte River, a mile wide and an inch deep. I always say, “If you want to become a billionaire, invent something that will allow people to indulge their own Resistance.” Somebody did invent it. It’s called the Internet. Social media. That wonderland where we can flit from one superficial, jerkoff distraction to another, always remaining on the surface, never going deeper than an inch.
Real work and real satisfaction come from the opposite of what the web provides. They come from going deep into something—and staying there for a long, long time. P 9
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Pressfield
https://www.amazon.com/Steven-Pressfield/e/B000AQ8R8Q
STEVEN PRESSFIELD has made a professional life in five different writing arenas—advertising, screenwriting, fiction, narrative nonfiction, and self-help. He is the best-selling author of The Legend of Bagger Vance, Gates of Fire, The Afghan Campaign, and The Lion’s Gate, as well as the cult classics on creativity, The War of Art, Turning Pro, and Do the Work. His Wednesday column on stevenpressfield.com is one of the most popular series about writing on the web.
Reference
Ferriss, Timothy. Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World (P. 5). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B071KJ7PTB/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1519251939&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=tribes+of+mentors.
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