Reinventing Yourself
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Reinventing Yourself
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#2James Altucher is a badass
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#3Right, spare time working 16 hours a day...
Also, you can't just reject your brain. It's not a tool, it is the boat in which YOU sail. If you treat it like the enemy, like a piece of shit you hate, you will be on the losing side, you will drown. The only way is to learn how it works and take control of it, slowly and methodically...
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#4"Take your favorite author and type your favorite story of his word for word. Wonder to yourself why he wrote each word. He’s your mentor today."
Good idea. Unfortunately my favorite story is Lord of the Rings, which is too long to type, but I suppose I could type out a chapter. But for now I will be satisfied with a quote:
"If more of us valued food and cheer above hoarded gold, it would be a much merrier world."
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#5Ah, self help tripe. A world in which the experiences of one person are assumed to be universal, and where depression can be solved by sitting in silence for one hour.
Congratulations on your blog post/book full of platitudes and cliché. I hope this is not the height of your accomplishment. When you're done being dismissive of the struggles of others, I hope you can write a book about humility.
As a generally happy and content person in the middle of a "reinvention", even I found this post absurd.
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#6Fantastic if "reinvent yourself" is supposed to mean "become a doormat for investors and VCs".
It takes five years and a studied lack of passion to fake being good enough to make money from it. It takes a lifetime and genuine passion to be good enough to advance the state of your art.
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#7"Take your favorite author and type your favorite story of his word for word. Wonder to yourself why he wrote each word. He’s your mentor today." Good idea. Unfortunately my favorite story is Lord of the Rings, which is too long to type, but I suppose I could type out a chapter. But for now I will be satisfied with a quote: "If more of us valued food and cheer above hoarded gold, it would be a much merrier world."
Depends on how serious you are about learning to write well.
The Lord of the Rings is 473k words. [1] If you type it out at 50 wpm, that's 157 hours, or about four work-weeks of typing.
That's a lot if you're just fucking around. But if your goal is to write your own successful epic, burning a month or three on really thinking closely about each word is a reasonable investment against the 5 or so years you'd spend writing that epic.
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#8I'm as weary of motivational writing as the next person, but I thought this was unusually full of actual good ideas. As just one example, it offers a framework for understanding why I feel so frustrated: I'm only in year one.
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#9Stereotypical judging of others and self-promotion does not equal a cheat sheet for reinventing yourself.
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#10Ah, self help tripe. A world in which the experiences of one person are assumed to be universal, and where depression can be solved by sitting in silence for one hour. Congratulations on your blog post/book full of platitudes and cliché. I hope this is not the height of your accomplishment. When you're done being dismissive of the struggles of others, I hope you can write a book about humility. As a generally happy a…
Absurd how?