The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change
SPEAK THE LANGUAGE OF THE PERSON YOU WANT TO BECOME
Adam Braun • The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change
Sometimes you just know. With absolute conviction. The complete absence of doubt is so rare it generates a sense of excitement that’s so powerful it becomes shocking. .
Adam Braun • The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change
“First, Adam, if you are asking people for large sums of money, you need to dress the part. You can’t wear jeans to a meeting at a private members club. You have to get a nice suit.
Adam Braun • The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change
Take advantage of the freedom that comes with your youth. Inhale life, exhale fire, and embrace the late, sleepless nights, because that’s when the magic happens—when everyone else is asleep and you’re awake thinking about the world as it is, and the world as it could be. Make the most of those moments,”
Adam Braun • The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change
“Then you must promise me that you will come back. And Pencils of Promise will work in Ghana to support the education of our children.” “I hope so.” I meant it. “Hope is not enough. You have to believe, and then it will be so.”
Adam Braun • The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change
but internally I was beginning to ask fewer questions about money and more questions about meaning.
Adam Braun • The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change
But over time I noticed that certain people became energy vampires, sucking time and enthusiasm out of others without providing value in return. At first it seemed laughable to consider firing someone who wasn’t even being paid and who dedicated thirty hours per week to our cause, but removing people who didn’t produce became imperative to setting
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These expectations of excellence became the tent poles that formed our values, and our values then guided the choices we made. They served as a constant reminder that to achieve exceptional things, you must hold yourself to exceptional standards, regardless of what others may think.
Adam Braun • The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change
I decided early on that we wouldn’t share our story through traditional press until we had three pieces in place: (1) what I called a “holy shit” story. You needed to hear about PoP and think, Holy shit! How have I not heard about this? I need to tell someone else about it now; (2) a beautiful website with a back-end system to handle inbound inquir
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