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The worst is yet to come.
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No marketer is ever going to push something with the stink of reasonableness, complexity, or mixed emotions.
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Media was once about protecting a name; on the web it is about building one.
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For any project, you must know what you are doing--and what you are not doing. You must also know who you are doing it for--and who you are not doing it for--to be able to say: THIS and for THESE PEOPLE. In
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What thrives online is not the writing that reflects anything close to the reality in which you and I live. Nor does it allow for the kind of change that will create the world we wish to live in.
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I was there to deface billboards, specifically billboards I had designed and paid for. Not that I'd expected to do anything like this, but there I was, doing it.
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In under two weeks, and with no budget, thousands of college students protested the movie on their campuses nationwide, angry citizens vandalized our billboards in multiple neighborhoods, FoxNews.com ran a front-page story about the backlash, Page Six of the New York Post made their first of many mentions of Tucker, and the Chicago Transit Authority banned and stripped the movie's advertisements from their buses. To cap it all off, two diff..
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In the pay-per-pageview model, every post is a conflict of interest.
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coding and technical chops are now an essential part of being a great marketer. Growth hackers are a hybrid of marketer and coder...
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According to the story, "the most powerful predictor of virality is how much anger an article evokes" [emphasis mine]. I will say it again: The most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger." --
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Things must be negative but not too negative. Hopelessness, despair--these drive us to do nothing. Pity, empathy--those drive us to do something, like get up from our computers to act. But anger, fear, excitement, or laughter--these drive us to spread. They drive us to do something that makes us feel as if we are doing something, when in reality we are only contributing to what is probably a superficial and utterly meaningless conversation.
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Real strength lies in the control or, as Nassim Taleb put it, the domestication of one's emotions, not in pretending they don't exist.
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Is there a chance? Do I have a shot? Is there something I can do?
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The end goal of every growth hacker is to build a self-perpetuating marketing machine that reaches millions by itself.
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Desperation, despair, fear, powerlessness--these reactions are functions of our perceptions. You must realize: Nothing makes us feel this way; we choose to give in to such feelings.
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The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way. In
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While you're sleeping, traveling, attending meetings, or messing around online, the same thing is happening to you. You're going soft. You're not aggressive enough. You're not pressing ahead. You've got a million reasons why you can't move at a faster pace. This all makes the obstacles in your life loom very large.
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Each project matters, and the only degrading part is giving less than one is capable of giving.
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Our actions may be impeded ... but there can be no impeding our intentions or dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting.
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You've got your mission, whatever it is. To accomplish it, like the rest of us you're in the pinch between the way you wish things were and the way they actually are (which always seem to be a disaster). How far are you willing to go? What are you willing to do about it?
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In actuality, the will has a lot more to do with surrender than with strength. Try "God willing" over "the will to win" or "willing it into existence," for even those attributes can be broken. True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition."
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Pageview journalism treats people by what they appear to want--from data that is unrepresentative to say the least--and gives them this and only this until they have forgotten that there could be anything else. It takes the audience at their worst and makes them worse.
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The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged chance, conquered the chance, and made chance the servitor. --E. H. CHAPIN
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the Stoic maxim: sustine et abstine. Bear and forbear. Acknowledge the pain but trod onward in your task.
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Take a good hard look at people's ruling principle, especially of the wise, what they run away from and what they seek out." --MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 4.38"
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The economics of the Internet created a twisted set of incentives that make traffic more important--and more profitable--than the truth.
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For some reason, these days we tend to downplay the importance of aggression, of taking risks, of barreling forward. It's probably because it's been negatively associated with certain notions of violence or masculinity. But of course Earhart shows that that isn't true. In fact, on the side of her plane she painted the words, "Always think with your stick forward." That is: You can't ever let up your flying speed--if you do, you crash."
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Wherever we are, whatever we're doing and wherever we are going, we owe it to ourselves, to our art, to the world to do it well.
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How you do anything is how you can do everything.
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At twenty-one, Richard Wright was not the world-famous author he would eventually be. But poor and black, he decided he would read and no one could stop him. Did he storm the library and make a scene? No, not in the Jim Crow South he didn't. Instead, he forged a note that said, "Dear Madam: Will you please let this nigger boy have some books by HL Mencken?" (because no one would write that about themselves, right?), and checked them out wit..
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you're so busy thinking about the future, you don't take any pride in the tasks you're given right now. You just phone it all in, cash your paycheck, and dream of some higher station in life. Or you think, This is just a job, it isn't who I am, it doesn't matter. Foolishness. Everything
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sometimes the longest way around is the shortest way home.
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What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better. --WENDELL PHILLIPS I
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The point is that most people start from disadvantage (often with no idea they are doing so) and do just fine. It's not unfair, it's universal. Those who survive it, survive because they took things day by day--that's the real secret. Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.
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Help your fellow humans thrive and survive, contribute your little bit to the universe before it swallows you up, and be happy with that. Lend a hand to others. Be strong for them, and it will make you stronger.
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Then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. --SHAKESPEARE
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Adversity can harden you. Or it can loosen you up and make you better--if you let it.
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Whatever we face, we have a choice: Will we be blocked by obstacles, or will we advance through and over them? We might not be emperors, but the world is still constantly testing us. It asks: Are you worthy? Can you get past the things that inevitably fall in your way? Will you stand up and show us what you're made of?
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when the fire is strong, it soon appropriates to itself the matter which is heaped on it, and consumes it, and rises higher by means of this very material.
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It was this intense self-discipline and objectivity that allowed Rockefeller to seize advantage from obstacle after obstacle in his life, during the Civil War, and the panics of 1873, 1907, and 1929. As he once put it: He was inclined to see the opportunity in every disaster. To that we could add: He had the strength to resist temptation or excitement, no matter how seductive, no matter the situation. Within twenty years of that first crisi..
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Common wisdom provides us with the maxims: Beware the calm before the storm. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. The worst is yet to come. It gets worse before it gets better. The world might call you a pessimist. Who cares? It's far better to seem like a downer than to be blindsided or caught off guard. It's better to meditate on what could happen, to probe for weaknesses in our plans, so those inevitable failures can be correctly pe..
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The Way Through Them Objective judgment, now at this very moment. Unselfish action, now at this very moment. Willing acceptance--now at this very moment--of all external events. That's all you need. --MARCUS AURELIUS
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No harshness, no deprivation, no toil should interfere with our empathy toward others.
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Sometimes, staying put, going sideways, or moving backward is actually the best way to eliminate what blocks or impedes your path.
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