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Do you have a 1000x game?
If you have a team of A players and you know how to build it from scratch – nothing can stop you. If you can build a 20 people team – you can build an army.
Peter Thiel and Michael Bloomberg (both are multi billionaires) are the examples of what you can reach by focusing on building a team instead of blogging, writing, coaching, trying to solve a problems by yourself or hiring someone ones in a while. If you are a company of one – you are alone… and you cannot possibly compete with someone who can build an army.
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Don’t play “one shot” game
The competition for a first time writer is suffocating. But I believe there is a way to stand out the crowd.
The most common mistake a first time writers do is writing without exposure.
Derek Sivers was blogging 15 years before publishing his first book. Chris Brogan was blogging every day for 5 years before writing the first book…
A first time writers who don’t publish their articles are not writers but dreamers.
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Teaching? What for?
Sometimes people ask me something – I give them my advice… But afterwards, I’m checking out if my advice was really that good. I google, I read books. And guess what – ones in a while it turns out that I gave a wrong advice.
So teaching someone teaches me to be humble. It teaches me to understand what I’m really good at, and what I’m suck on. And it motivates me to study more.
Try to teach, and you will learn a ton not only on a subject but on who you really are.
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For more information on how to give someone an advise please listen the song of Derek Sivers ANSWERS. -
Nothing is everything!
Back in my high school days I had a friend. He has had quite an annoying feature. Sometimes when I asked him a question – instead of replying right away – he just repeated the question, and after repeating he was pondering for some seconds before reply…
It was very annoying. And every time I was thinking: “Why you are so slow… Can you just stop to do it?”If fact my friend was so slow that he managed to skip the last year in high school (he spent in high school 1 year less than all of us) and entered one of the best universities in Russia – NSU.
He was so slow that he didn’t care about classes on physics and math in school because he was studying physics and math by the correspondence course.
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The short story of my life
YOUNG AGES
My mother was an entrepreneur. It was illegal in Soviet Russia so she was an entrepreneur undercover. And I’ve been so lucky to see what it’s like to be an entrepreneur. Incredibly lucky.
Sometimes in the morning my mom was looking in the mirror saying “if anyone would know how I don’t want to work today”.
It was happening very rare – that’s how I learn quite early – how important it is to enjoy the job. -
Editors never lie
It’s a great idea for a writer to have a blog.
But… Is this a part of a gig?Jared Diamond, Pulitzer prize winner, doesn’t have a blog. But he has published more than six hundred articles.
Walter Isaacson doesn’t have a blog. But he is a journalist.
Peter Thiel doesn’t have a blog. But he is publishing articles in a newspapers and magazines.
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Writing? What for?
There’sThere\’s a huge misconception that writing skills needed for writers only.
Forget about writing books or blogging – first of all you need writing skills to COMMUNICATE.
To Communicate With Oneself
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10 people
“Seth Godin has published roughly 6,500 posts on his blog since 2002. Which blog post would he point people to first, if he had to pick one?
It is called ‘First, Ten,’ and it is a simple theory of marketing that says: tell ten people, show ten people, share it with ten people; ten people who already trust you and already like you. If they don’t tell anybody else, it’s not that good and you should start over. If they do tell other people, you’re on your way.” – Tools of Titans by Tim Ferris -
Hire well, manage little
It’s becoming more and more common to give more freedom, more autonomy and authority to employees.
“At Berkshire, managers can focus on running their businesses: They are not subjected to meetings at headquarters nor financing worries nor Wall Street harassment. They simply get a letter from me every two years … and call me when they wish. And their wishes do differ: There are managers to whom I have not talked in the last year, while there is one with whom I talk almost daily. Our trust is in people rather than process. A ‘hire well, manage little’ code suits both them and me.” – Warren Buffett
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