December 2011
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Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their...
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Advice
Today I got in touch with my personal friend and expert on crazy ideas- Mark Malkoff. He’s a guy who
visited every one of the 171 Starbucks in Manhattan in a single day, and purchased and consumed an item in each!
lived in Ikea for a week
broke the world record for most continuous flights by staying on an airplane for a month
raced an NYC crosstown bus on a tricycle- and won!
I wanted...
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It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man...
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Theodore Roosevelt, “Citizenship in a Republic,” Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
Preparation
When people take on huge goals, I always imagine they must have some unhealthy addiction to success. Or some gene missing in their DNA that makes them abandon practicality. How could you be so sure that your idea is going to work out? And yet it seems that those people whose ideas do work are exclusively among those who KNEW IT WOULD from the beginning.
But it’s really not true. Successful...