don’t be discouraged
weathering the ups and downs of creative projects, life, relationships. one brick at a time.
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don’t be discouraged
via Albert Einstein:
“It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one’s balance.”
In 1999, Larry Page and Sergey Brin wanted to sell Google for $750,000.
They were rejected.
Today, their combined stake in the company is worth $247 billion.
I tell a lot of entrepreneurs who don’t have traction, I miss those times. Yes, it’s exciting to have traction, to have a company that has huge scale. But the biggest leaps you ever get are when you’re small. Another way of saying it is: Your product changes less the bigger you get because there’s more customers, more blowback, more systems, more
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While it’s not a principle, I often think of the parable of the Taoist farmer. The Taoist farmer has one horse, and the horse runs off. The villagers lament his misfortune, and he replies “We’ll see.” The horse returns with four more horses, and
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Trusting the process becomes much easier when you regularly run into these little reminders that we’re all kinda going through the same ups and the same downs... “The tough thing is that consistency can feel like it’s not paying off for long stretches of time. You feel aimless, like you’re going nowhere. You’re not improving as fast as you like.... See more
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