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When Your Purpose Is 1-of-1
When you’re focused on something few others are thinking about, you find yourself constantly making the case to yourself and others that your vision is worth pursuing and worthy of other people’s attention. This ongoing need to justify your work creates a significant emotional overhead.
Yancey Strickler • When Your Purpose Is 1-of-1
Following your own ideas and instincts is how we create genuine confidence and craft in our work. True satisfaction is achieved by liberating ourselves from desiring the approval of others. While others might triumphantly social climb into various inner rings, it’s only from pursuing our own path that we find lasting fulfillment.
Yancey Strickler • When Your Purpose Is 1-of-1
I appreciated Nvidia’s founder talking the other week about what it means to work in a zero billion dollar industry. It means really believing in something no one else can see, but trusting that if you do your part eventually others will
Yancey Strickler • When Your Purpose Is 1-of-1
It was a years-long process of trying, failing, and iterating to find the language and expressions that would make what felt clear to us obvious to others.
Yancey Strickler • When Your Purpose Is 1-of-1
In each of these projects I regularly found myself trying to convince friends, family, and potential future participants on the merits of these ideas. It was an uphill search for the words, frames, themes, and execution that would help others see it the way I or we did.
Yancey Strickler • When Your Purpose Is 1-of-1
In each of these projects I regularly found myself trying to convince friends, family, and potential future participants on the merits of these ideas. It was an uphill search for the words, frames, themes, and execution that would help others see it the way I or we did.
There were times when this was invigorating and rewarding. But there were just... See more
There were times when this was invigorating and rewarding. But there were just... See more
Yancey Strickler • When Your Purpose Is 1-of-1
you must be able to live inside of your vision in such a way that you can communicate its emotional essence, its core truth, to the immediate world around you.
Yancey Strickler • When Your Purpose Is 1-of-1
Having the vision and motivation to go for a 1-of-1 purpose are the most important elements. But what if we want to thrive in the pursuit of our goal? What does that look like?
First, and one of the hardest parts: you must give up your desire for approval from others . When pursuing a 1-of-1 vision, you aren’t going to be the most popular or... See more
First, and one of the hardest parts: you must give up your desire for approval from others . When pursuing a 1-of-1 vision, you aren’t going to be the most popular or... See more
Yancey Strickler • When Your Purpose Is 1-of-1
Stubbornness is also important. In the short term a 1-of-1 purpose will almost always fail. Every day is yet another moment that people didn’t follow your vision and the world failed to transform according to your ideas. The failures are literally limitless.
With a longer view, however, this process looks different. Eighty straight days of... See more
With a longer view, however, this process looks different. Eighty straight days of... See more