Do good work and your fits will follow
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Do good work and your fits will follow
"Remember that buying s**t is not the same as having swag. Remember that having cool interests beyond cool clothes, and doing good deeds besides putting together sick outfits (which, to be clear, is a good deed), will make your clothes look better on you"
h/t BLKBRD_Spyplane
sari added
whatever it is that you like doing, and you just start doing what you think is cool and interesting, everything changes. And we are all influenced by other things. Well, nobody else thinks that’s cool. And we might even think we’re being authentic, but we’re still looking at something else.
Ben Settle • BizWorld: How to Create an Irresistible Business Universe Your Customers Love to Buy from and Hate to Leave
Don't try to work in a distinctive style. Just try to do the best job you can; you won't be able to help doing it in a distinctive way.
Style is doing things in a distinctive way without trying to. Trying to is affectation.
Affectation is in effect to pretend that someone other than you is doing the work. You adopt an impressive but fake persona, and... See more
Style is doing things in a distinctive way without trying to. Trying to is affectation.
Affectation is in effect to pretend that someone other than you is doing the work. You adopt an impressive but fake persona, and... See more
How to Do Great Work
the “search” for greatness is often misguided, perhaps because what we imagine to be great, is in fact not that great at all. Instead of speculating what may make you great, get out there and start doing. Do not look for perfection or even greatness, but instead signs of “good” and start making tangible progress.
Steph Smith • How to Be Great? Just Be Good, Repeatably
Empirically, the way to have good startup ideas is to become the sort of person who has them.
Paul Graham • How to Get Startup Ideas
Ajinkya Wadhwa added
When you read biographies of people who've done great work, it's remarkable how much luck is involved. They discover what to work on as a result of a chance meeting, or by reading a book they happen to pick up. So you need to make yourself a big target for luck, and the way to do that is to be curious. Try lots of things, meet lots of people, read
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Kyle Steinike and added