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All advice is autobiographical
When people give you advice, they're really just talking to themselves in the past.
This book is me talking to a previous version of myself.
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Nothing is original.
The writer Jonathan Lethem has said that when people call something " original," nine out of ten times they just don't know the references or the original sources involved.
What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely original.
It's right there in the Bible: "There is nothing new under the sun."
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The Genealogy of ideas
Just as you have a familial genealogy, you also have a genealogy of ideas. You don't get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends and you can pick the music you listen to and you can pick the books you read and you can pick the movies you see.
You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life. You are the sum of your influences. The German writer Goethe said, "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."
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Garbage in, Garbage out
There's an economic theory out there that if you take the incomes of your five closest friends and average them, the resulting number will be pretty close to your own income.
I think the same thing is true of our idea incomes. You're only going to be as good as the stuff you surround yourself with.
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It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.
MARK TWAIN
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