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Living life as an artist is a practice. You are either engaging in the practice or you’re not.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
You’re always selling: selling your services, selling your customers’ services (!) (this is the real, true secret for keeping customers by the way), and selling your company.
James Altucher • Choose Yourself!
Principle #1: Cognitive Bandwidth Deserves a Fortress around It
Robin Sharma • The Everyday Hero Manifesto: Activate Your Positivity, Maximize Your Productivity, Serve The World
Scott Belsky
Abie Cohen • 9 cards
You just have to be as generous as you can, but selfish enough to get your work done.
Austin Kleon • Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Austin Kleon)
"Mastery is the best goal because the rich can't buy it, the impatient can't rush it, the privileged can't inherit it, and nobody can steal it. You can only earn it through hard work. Mastery is the ultimate status."
3-2-1: On growing fast vs. growing slow, the value of mastery, and climbing the right mountain
Story Driven: You don't need to compete when you know who you are
Bernadette Jiwa • 37 highlights
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Use what’s helpful. Let go of the rest.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Although time blocking isn’t hard, protecting the time you’ve blocked is. The world doesn’t know your purpose or priorities and isn’t responsible for them—you are. So it’s your job to protect your time blocks from all those who don’t know what matters most to you, and from yourself when you forget.