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Lessons From Self Made Billionaires

The value of hard work and persistence

How to stay focused on long-term goals

How to learn from failures and setbacks

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Lessons From Self Made Billionaires

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Copy

Start copying as we learn almost everything by copying e.g. Writing by copying alphabets, music by playing scales repeatedly.
Those who don’t want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Figure out about who to copy and how to copy.

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Practice Productive Procrastination

We must have 2 or more projects at hand, so if we bored from one, move to other and if we get sick of other we can switch to third or start the first where we left.

Bounce between these side projects and hobbies to practice this productive procrastination.

Combine all your hobbies/pa...

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Write What You Like

Draw the art you want to see,

Start the business you want to run,

Play the music you want to hear,

Write the books you want to read

Build the products you want to use.

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Immature poets imitate; Mature poets steal; Bad poets deface, what they take:

But, Good poets make it into something better, different and unique.

TS ELIOT

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An Artist is a COLLECTOR, not HOARDER.

Just collect the more good ideas and choose from them to be influenced by

Always Be Learning

School is one thing/education is another.
Be curious about anything, then go deeper into one thing than anybody else, that’s how you’ll get ahead.
Google everything from your dreams, problems, solutions, foolish questions. This way you’ll either get your answers or you’ll c...

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Use Your Hands

Step away from screen, do some work/art, but perform physically.

Go through the motions, Screens should get ‘on’ after you plan or think about any idea completely.

Bring your body into work, art that only comes from the head isn’t any good

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Start When You Are Ready

If you are ready for creating something, just start making. Don’t wait for the specific or perfect time, just start

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Be Obscure Or Undiscovered

In the beginning, obscurity is good as you are unknown, so there is no pressure of performance and no image to maintain in public.

GraduallyDo good work and share it with people, wonder at something and invite others to wonder with you.

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Benefits Of Dayjob

It gives you money
Connections to the world
Routine

A Day Job put you to the path of other human beings, learn from them, steal from them like

Library job can teach how to research
Web design job can teach how to build website
Copywriti...

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Where To Steal From

Films
Music
Books
Paintings
Photos
Poems
Dreams
Random Conversations
Architecture
Street Signs
Trees
Clouds
Nature
Water
Light
Shadows
Anything

Steal th...

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Save Your Thefts For Later

Always carry a pen and paper or any tool with you wherever you go to collect ideas and put them into a ‘Swipe File’ (Open this whenever you need any inspiration)

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Leave home at least once to see the change in your everyday surroundings. Make your brain 🧠 uncomfortable by going to different places, meeting different kind of people who do things differently than you.

If you want to complain about the way other people make software, then complain by ma...

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What Is An IDEA

Every new idea is just a remix of one or more previous ideas like Genetics.

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Climb Your Own Family Tree

Chew on 1 thinker/role model you like, Study everything about him & then find the 3 people he follows/loves and now study them like you study him and repeat the process as many times as you can.

Climb up the tree as far as you can go. Once you build your tree, its time to start your own br...

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