Apprenticeship
I grew up on a farm in the middle of nowhere. What I thought was a disadvantage turned out to be a secret weapon.
When I moved to New York, I had no Yale MFA. No family connections. No prestigious background. Just a kid from rural Virginia with big dreams about being a music critic.
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Yancey Stricklerx.com... See moreWhen my brother and I were growing up, my father would encourage us to fail. We'd sit around the dinner table and he'd ask, "What did you guys fail at this week?" If we had nothing to tell him, he'd be disappointed. The logic seems counterintuitive, but it worked beautifully.
He knew that many people become paralyzed by the fear of failure. They're