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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
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
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
Yancey Strickler • When Your Purpose Is 1-of-1
It’s possible for other projects to be sexier, more lucrative, and more attention getting, however their purposes are less unique than yours.
Yancey Strickler • When Your Purpose Is 1-of-1
I’ve finally come to realize that we should feel lucky when the universe gifts us a 1-of-1 purpose. It’s not something to lament or fear. It’s something to relish and embrace. When you’re called by a vision few others can see, trust that if you do your part, one day others will too.
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
You must immerse yourself in the concept car version of the universe where your 1-of-1 vision clicks in an everyday way, and then express how that vision credibly relates to people’s actual lives.
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.