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We wanted to hack a device, so that unless you remained calm and your brain stayed idle, it would shock the hell out of you. Would the horrible fear of impending pain cause you to clear your mind, or concentrate and receive said pain? Would extended use of the device ruin your neural net so that you could no longer concentrate for fear of being shocked?
“Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them – Work, Family, Health, Friends and Spirit and you’re keeping all of these in the Air.
You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back.Well put.
7. People buy your product because it helps fill in the narrative gaps in their lives.
20. I personally know a former CEO who, once he attained control of the company, ran an EXTREMELY profitable business into the ground in less than two years. From a market cap of $100 million to ZERO, just like that. Why? Short answer: He loved being “The” CEO, but he didn’t much care for being “a” CEO.
There is no movement without the first follower. We're told we all need to be leaders, but that would be really ineffective. The best way to make a movement, if you really care, is to courageously follow and show others how to follow. When you find a lone nut doing something great, have the guts to be the first person to stand up and join inWorth the three minutes.
In the moment, you're angry, and focusing only on that one awful person that did you wrong. Your thinking is clouded. You start thinking everyone is awful, and see the world as against you. This is a horrible time to make a new policy.
It’s expected that these two videos would have different engagement graphs, but what’s odd is that the first 30 seconds of both videos are identical!
“Look,” he says, “Back then I was just one of thou sands of young wan nabe film knuckleheads in New York, trying to get my foot in the door. I nee ded to have a story to tell peo ple. One that was inte res ting. One that was dif fe rent. One that got people’s atten tion. One that made me stand out from all the other knuc kleheads. One that didn’t require me having a mas sive show reel. Hey, it wor ked. That story got me my first few edi ting jobs in the busi ness. And since then I’ve been nothing but successful.”
He pauses for a second.
“A little present-tense suc cess, for gi ves a lot of past-tense fai lure,” he says, chuc kling with delight.
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