“I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point?”
― Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
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“I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point?” ― Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
When you read a biography, everybody wants to know the beginning. There's always a part of the biography after they're super rich and famous and they're donating a bunch of money and I'm glad they're doing all that, that's fundamentally not interesting. How many people can relate to that? But everybody can relate to, hey, I have a dream. This is wh... See more
Patrick O'Shaughnessy • Passion & Pain
We always want to copy end states, but we never want to copy the journeyYou can’t behave like Steve Jobs without having gone through his journey
Kunal Shah • Kunal Shah: Core Human Motivations [The Knowledge Project Ep. #141]
“I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.”
― Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life