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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 a... See more
There were times when this was invigorating and rewarding. But there were just a... See more
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
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.
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
To power through pain and uncertainty, we must feed our psyches with action and energy.
Yancey Strickler • When Your Purpose Is 1-of-1
C.S. Lewis writes about how to avoid this:
The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surprising result will follow. If in your working hours you make the work your end, you will presently find yourself all unawares inside the only circle in your profession that really matters. You will be one of... See more
Yancey Strickler • 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
Be the thing — Don’t just theorize about release clubs, actively be one every day. By doing things we want as a release club, we learn what others might want. This act of progressive productization, where we first do the thing for ourselves and then make it available to others, has repeatedly revealed valuable truths that have helped us bring this
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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 strugglin... See more
With a longer view, however, this process looks different. Eighty straight days of strugglin... See more