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How To Know If You'll Be Successful - Thrive Global - Medium
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If you want to remain mediocre at something forever, keep it to yourself
If you want to become extremely successful, then openly share your dreams with your loved ones. Friends and family will also hold you accountable to your dreams and goals if they see you not making progress.
Address problems as they arise
If you do not address a problem in 0.25 seconds after a mistake is made, then you probably won’t do anything about it. You’ll shrug your shoulders and keep going. This is really bad for learning. If you simply address your problems on the spot, correct them, and learn better ways, then you don’t have to continuously repeat the problem.
Learning and growing are emotional and often painful experiences
When you go through a painful experience, that experience can only become one of two things to you. It’s either going to become a long-term problem, or it’s going to become a core strength.
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When an idea becomes your obsession and purpose, and it is highly personal to you, then you can take that idea and quickly turn it into a reality.
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“You never change things by fighting against the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.”
Adapting to our circumstances
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4 Stages of Creative Control
- Preparation: you’re learning everything you can about the problem.
- Incubation: you’re allowing your unconscious mind to work on the problem.
- Illumination: ...
Creative work categories
- Prioritize: The clearer your priorities, the more focused you can be on the task at hand.
- Generate: Build a creative habit. Make a daily deliverable, whether it’s 100-words a day, a 30-second song etc...
- Explore: When you Explore, you collect the raw materials for the insights you’ll have when you Generate.
- Research: To solve a creative problem, you have to learn whatever you can about that problem.
- Recharge: When you rest, you allow your unconscious mind to work on your creative problems.
- Polish: A great idea won’t work if you don’t execute it well.
- Administrate: make it all work, so you can keep doing what you’re doing.
Becoming a perpetual creativity machine
- Build a tiny creative habit: Find the time of day with the best creative energy and make your daily deliverable so small, you can’t stand to fail.
- Take time to Prioritize: Once you’ve established a habit, dedicate an hour a week to a “weekly review”.
- Rest with a purpose: Establish times during your day and your week when you’ll do something that Recharges you.
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Donate When You Buy
When you order from Amazon, use “smile.amazon.com.”
You choose the charity, and they donate a portion of your eligible orders at no cost to you.
Support Your Friends’ Businesses
“Like,” “Share,” or comment on your friend’s business content.
It’s easy, free, and strengthens your friendship, and their business.
Box Up Leftovers
Instead of taking leftovers home to have them spoil, consider giving it to someone in need.
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