"No one gets anywhere alone"

If you know something’s going to work, it’s not worth working on. It requires no courage. It requires no faith. It requires no skin in the game. Whether you’re a spy or a teacher or a spouse or a painter or an abuela or an astronaut or a monk or a barista or a board-game designer, the bits that matter are the bits you make matter by putting yoursel

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That next endeavor that you launch, whether it’s creating handcrafted products for the farmers market, starting a new coffee shop, if you share your story and give people a way to follow your journey, they will. Some will buy your products, others will tell their friends, and still more will cheer you on.

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Many promising ideas fail to see the light of day not because they're wrong, but because their champions fail to persuade the right audience. Having a good idea is less than half the battle. Change is fueled by people with the will and skill to communicate their visions.

The world doesn’t reward the people with the best ideas. It rewards the people who are best at communicating ideas. Want to publish a bestseller or launch a startup? Want to spread your ideas across the Internet like schmear on a New York bagel? Then become a better writer .