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“You have to give up, you have to realize that someday you will die, until you know that you are useless.”
. . . I’m due to read that book again. I was late to the Palahniuk game, reading his work only after the movie Fight Club went big.
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“If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I am convinced that all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just got de-geniused rapidly.”
— Buckminster Fuller
I just read Les Mottosky’s post that starts with these words: “I can have everything I want.”
That is a powerful statement; certainly a challenge for me to utter without adding a number of qualifications. But, instead of listing all the reasons I can’t have what I want (or why imagined others in less fortunate circumstances than me can’t have what they want), that statement calls me to confront what I can control: myself.
The biggest obstacle to my success is the unnecessary hesitations, habits, and beliefs I saddle myself with. At my weakest, I experience a combo of paralysis by over-analysis and an inability to accept all that is attainable for me. This pre-emptive self-sabotage leaves no room for surprises.
Thankfully, I am not my weakness. Although counter-intuitive and simple, letting go of the fight against myself is where I find strength and am open to receive all I want. I know what I want and I let myself have it.
Letting go is letting loose; it results in forward trajectory to my goals.
The two above quotations came to me courtesy of Helen Daniels’s site.
With effort, patience, and practice, the risk of doing difficult things can be reduced significantly.
In entrepreneurship, the risk is likely not as great as you’re making it out to be.
By improving your ability to perform, you simultaneously reduce risk and increase the potential size of success.
Get yourself ready to do it, then do it when you’re ready.
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“So much of the pain in life, over time, is caused by distance from the truth.”
—Mike Troiano from thisarticle.
(I thought I should counter-point my previous post)
Less than a year ago, the seed of an idea came to me via a tweet from a friend. Because of my background, I saw something in his innocuous question. I told him to delete the tweet and that we should talk about starting a company.
We did talk. A product idea was roughed in. Eventually, I even started a company (my friend decided to push his own path).
I’ve been hammering away on what has become Kiind for over 10 months. The product has changed, of course, from the initial idea. What hasn’t changed is the scent of opportunity that the original idea held. Product research and innovation has only intensified my identification and understanding of the opportunity.
Things always feel too slow for me; I want the world and I want it now. I put my mind to creating a successful company and I don’t give up easily. There has been significant progress over the past few months (as well as a number of lessons I should probably share publicly sometime).
“Be quick or be dead” (aka “fail fast”) is an oft-repeated phrase in the startup community. But dying quickly isn’t always the right course of action. Sometimes suffering a little longer is required.
Since starting Kiind, I’ve watched a few other startups fail for the wrong reasons. The founders let difficult obstacles get the better of them rather than finding a way around, or through, or under, or over them. Largely, they never truly started and ended up wasting a lot of their own, and their team’s, time. (there is, of course, value in this learning opportunity.)
One reason investors like passionate founders is because passion comes from the Greek word for suffering. Passionate founders are prepared to suffer.
Startup: you will suffer. You will be presented with thousands of reasons to give up, but only some of those reason are good ones. You will live in a state of suffering and you must learn to not only function, but excel, while feeling passion.
We’re on the edge of launching Kiind and I couldn’t be more proud of what we’ve accomplished to date. I’m passionate about Kiind because of the team that is involved with it, because of the impact we can have, and because of the integrity of the pursuit.
Let your passion purify your pursuits. Keep going.
A stunning work of art from Japan.
I just love the creativity of this art. I don’t know if this lighting concept of dancers is original, but this is the first I’ve seen it. What I love about this dance is how it plays with perception. We are used to seeing camera tricks and novel cinematography, but this dance troupe brings those same wonders into the sweaty live show experience. I would have loved to see this performance live.
The costume/lighting effects of this performance cover over their occasional lack of finesse.
Tracklist for Tron Dance by The Wrecking Crew Orchestra:
- Daft Punk – Arena
- Justice – Waters Of Nazareth (Erol Alkan’s Re-Edit)
- Crookers – Mad Kidz
- David Guetta – Paris
- Flux Pavillion – Bass Cannon
- Flux Pavilion – Lines In Wax (feat. Foreign Beggars)
“Instead of saying “I don’t have time” try saying “it’s not a priority,” and see how that feels. Often, that’s a perfectly adequate explanation. I have time to iron my sheets, I just don’t want to. But other things are harder. Try it: “I’m not going to edit your résumé, sweetie, because it’s not a priority.” “I don’t go to the doctor because my health is not a priority.” If these phrases don’t sit well, that’s the point. Changing our language reminds us that time is a choice. If we don’t like how we’re spending an hour, we can choose differently.”
– Laura Vanderkam (via swissmiss)
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