ED CATMUL
WE ALL BEGIN WITH SUCK
IF YOU CAN’T READ IT, TRY LISTENING TO IT
TO BECOME NA ARTIST, LEARN TO SEE
“It comes from what I think is a fundamental misunderstanding of art on the part of most people. Because they think of art as learning to draw or learning a certain kind of self-expression. But in fact, what artists do is they learn to see.”
TRACY DiNUNZIO
“WHEN YOU COMPLAIN, NOBODY WANTS TO HELP YOU”
“If you spend your time focusing on the things that are wrong and that’s what you express and project to people you know, you don’t become a source of growth for people, you become a source of destruction for people.”
“… I just decided to put myself on a ‘complaining diet’, where I said ‘Not only am I not going to say anything negative about the situation I’m in, but I’m not going to let myself think anything negative about it.’”
“… not only did replacing those thoughts helped me start moving my life in a better direction, where I wasn’t obsessing about what was wrong… it also made me not feel physical pain as much, which is very liberating and kind of necessary if you want to do anything.”
CHRIS YOUNG
What would you put on a billboard?
“’It all worked out anyway’”, placed outside oh his high school.
“THE INTERESTING JOBS ARE THE ONES THAT YOU MAKE UP.”
“Do things that you’re interested in, and if you do them really well, you’re going to find a way to temper them with some good business opportunity.”
HOLD THE STANDARD
“’If it’s not ready, we’re not going to send it out, and just hope they don’t notice that it’s not that good. We’ll fix it. We’ll do something else, but don’t try to slip by something that you know is below the standard.’”
DAYMOND JOHN
“If you can go out there and start making noise and making sales, people will find you…. You can make up your own opinions, but you cannot make up your own facts. Sales cure all.”
Do you have any quotes that you live your life by or think of often?
“Money is a great servant but a horrible master.”
NOAH KAGAN
DON’T TRY AND FIND ME. SCHEDULE TIME.
On Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to 12 noon, Noah schedules nothing but “Learning”.
KASKADE
PUT THE BIG STONES IN FIRST
“What’s really important here is how can I fill the bucket with the things that are really important to me?”
LUIS VON AHN
“Frustration is a matter of expectation.”
THE CANVAS STRATEGY
“It’s about providing the support so that others can be good.”
“Clear the path for the people above you and you will eventually create a path for yourself.”
“That’s the other effect of this attitude: It reduces your ego at a critical time in your career, letting you absorb everything you can without the obstructions that block others vision and progress.”
“Greatness comes from humble beginnings; it comes from grunt work. It means you’re the least important person in the room – until you change that with results.”
“That’s what the canvas strategy is about – helping yourself by helping others. Making a concerted effort to trade your short-term gratification for a longer-term payoff.”
JUSTIN BORETA
What is the worst advice you see or hear given in your trade or area of expertise?
“Like Chuck Close says ‘Inspiration is for amateurs – the rest of us just show up and get to work.’”
SCOTT BELSKY
What would you put on a billboard?
“’It’s not about ideas, it’s about making ideas happen.’”
“Truth is, young creative minds don’t need more ideas, they need to take more responsibility with the ideas they’ve already got.”
HOW TO EARN YOUR FREEDOM
“In reality, long-term travel has nothing to do with demographics – age, ideology, income – and everything to do with personal outlook.”
“This deliberate way of walking through the world has always been intrinsic to a time-honored, quietly available travel tradition known as “vagabonding”.”
“Vagabonding involves taking an extended time-out from your normal life – 6 weeks, 4 months, 2 years – to travel the world on your own terms.”
“Vagabonding is an attitude – a friendly interest in people, places, and things that makes a person an explorer in the truest, most vivid sense of the word.”
“… it’s the ongoing practice of looking and learning, of facing fears and altering habits, of cultivating a new fascination in people and places.”
PETER DIAMANDIS
“A PROBLEM IS A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE.”
Peter expands: “I think of problems as gold mines. The world’s biggest problems are the world’s biggest business opportunities.”
SOPHIA AMORUSO
JUMPING AND BUILDING A PLANE ON THE WAY DOWN
“I like to make promises that I’m not sure I can keep and then figure out how to keep them. I think you can will things into happening by just committing to them sometimes.”
B.J. NOVAK
“I CONSIDER BEING IN A GOOD MOOD THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF MY CREATIVE PROCESS.”
“I find that being in a good mood for creative work is worth the hours it takes to get in a good mood.”
HOW TO SAY “NO” WHEN IT MATTERS MOST
The Road to No
To become “successful” you have to say “yes” to a lot of experiments. To learn what you’re best at, or what you’re most passionate about, you have to throw a lot against the wall.
Once your life shifts from pitching outbound to defending against inbound, however, you have to ruthlessly say “no” as your default.
To develop your edge initially, you learn to set priorities; to maintain your edge, you need to defend against the priorities of others.
Once you reach a decent level of professional success, lack of opportunity won’t kill you. It’s drowning in “kinda cool” commitments that will sink the ship.
Outubro, 2020