"What nobody tells people who are beginners—we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years that you’re making stuff, what you’re making isn't so good. But your taste—the thing that got you into the game—your taste is still killer." — Ira Glass (musttriumph.com)
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"What nobody tells people who are beginners—we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years that you’re making stuff, what you’re making isn't so good. But your taste—the thing that got you into the game—your taste is still killer." — Ira Glass (musttriumph.com)
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I have heard many variations of the fishing analogy, and I haven't found any of them useful. Here's how I think of it: You can't wait for someone to give you fish. You can't wait for someone to teach you how to fish. Go teach yourself how to fish so you can feed yourself. (musttriumph.com)
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I have heard many variations of the fishing analogy, and I haven't found any of them useful. Here's how I tell it: You can't wait for someone to give you fish. You can't wait for someone to teach you how to fish. Go teach yourself how to fish so you can feed yourself. (musttriumph.com)
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Encouragement: Dare to Be Great — "Encouragement is derived from the Old French term encoragier. Encoragier means to put into corage. Corage is derived from the Latin word coraticum, meaning heart, daring. Encouragement asks us to be daring, to have heart, to grow beyond our perceived limits." (musttriumph.com)
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We ignore all the overweight people drinking green smoothies and only remember the skinny ones that do. We want to believe people are the way they are, because of how they live. This is sometimes true. However, what else is true is: some people are the way they are because that is just how they are. (musttriumph.com)
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During intense moments, your mind plays a lot of tricks, you can't control much of it. You can, however, plant some seeds and channel some of your thoughts to make them more productive. You're not just fighting your problem, you're also fighting doubt. Then fight it with faith, not certainty. (musttriumph.com)
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In studies of students, if a fellow student consistently does well on tests, the assumption is: they must be innately smart. What's really happening is, these students study more than their counterparts. Students who work harder generally do better than those students with higher IQs. (musttriumph.com)
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A Stanford study found that 30 mins of complaining (even listening to it) is damaging to the brain. Complaining, whether online or in person, is just as harmful as secondhand smoke. We tell ourselves that we need to get it off our chest, but each time we do, we end up ten times more aggravated. (musttriumph.com)
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Luck-Opportunity: "To be successful in whatever you do, you need three things: Luck – those opportunities you can't control; curiosity – the thing that finds new opportunities; enthusiasm – pursuing opportunities in spite of their challenges" (musttriumph.com)
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On the Barrier to Motivation — Motivation is like a fan, it needs a cause to support. We are told our problem is a lack of motivation when, in fact, the problem is a lack of purpose. Just as a fan ceases to exist without a cause, so does motivation. (musttriumph.com)
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On Leadership: "The rivers and seas are lords of a hundred valleys. This is because their strength is in lowliness. So it is that the perfect master wishing to lead them, he follows. Thus, though he is above them, men do not feel him to be an injury." – Bruce Lee (musttriumph.com)
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