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Visualizing Our Goals
A useful exercise with any problem or idea is to visualize what you want to see happen for yourself over the next two years.
The goal isn’t to solve anything. If you take an idea and just hold it in your head, you unconsciously start to do things that advance you toward that goal. The practice is what helps you to manufacture your own opportunities. In essence it builds confidence. Furthermore, this confidence helps you seize opportunities or create your own so that you can achieve what you desire.
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Solve Your Own Problem
Frustration is a great source of motivation.
You can’t stop at building a solution. You have to use it too. If you’re not the most ecstatic advocate and power user of your own product, you’ll never be able to build it to a point where enough people use it so it’s profitabl...
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this is the core of entrepreneurship – being the person who makes something happen for yourself.
BIZ STONE
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Limits Make You More Creative
A limit automatically forces you to be creative, because now you have to come up with a way to get around it.
Limits can be financial, biological, social, or even made up.
When Steven Spielberg shot Jaws, he wanted to get an animatronic shark, but it was too expe...
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Get The Raw Idea Out
Ideas rarely enter the world fully formed and ready to go. That’s why he always remains open to changes, even after the idea has been released.
For example, most of Twitter’s main features were user suggestions. People initially copied tweets they liked to share them, so Twitter introdu...
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Creative lessons from the co-founder of Twitter.
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3. Focus on The Two Important Questions
When providing feedback about specific performances we must use the simple framework that builds salespeople's confidence and competence:
"Did Well" and "Do Differently"
These two phrases builds confidence by asking what they did well while you add your own observations and addressing...
Pitching
Start by drafting a pitch and putting it up on your wall. Look at it every day, and ask how you can simplify it. Can you get it down to one breath? Can you explain it to a ten-year-old?
Next, you need to prepare different versions. Your first floor pitch is the single sentence elevator pit...
Focusing Too Much On Your Goals
Obsessing over a certain goal means you're operating from a constant state of failure: you're failing to meet your own expectations. This can make you feel frustrated and miserable because you're not reaching the stage you desire to be at.
Having goals is essential, or...
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