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…if you don’t think this individual is worth the effort, you should think seriously about a new venue for your labors, because at this one you’ll be wasting time, effort, and money.
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…every conversation you have is an invitation to risk revealing the real you. What’s the worst that can happen? They don’t respond in kind. So what. They probably weren’t worth knowing in the first place.
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Good personal brands do three highly significant things for your network of contacts: They provide a credible, distinctive, and trustworthy identity. They project a compelling message. They attract more and more people to you and your cause…
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Within a network, your brand… establishes your worth. It takes your mission and content and broadcasts it to the world.
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We don’t just preach the virtues of our side; we find self-worth in prosecuting the vices of our rivals.
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What is true for grit is true for optimism. Optimism gets you to stick to things that are worthwhile. But optimism also gets you to stick to things that are no longer worthwhile. And life’s too short to do that.
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Life is just too short to be spending our time on things that aren’t worthwhile. We all need people around us who will tell us when we’re on the wrong path.
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…while goals do help us to be grittier, grit isn’t always a virtue… [it’s] good for getting you to stick to hard things that are worthwhile, but grit also gets you to stick to hard things that are no longer worthwhile.
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When we worry that waiting means we’ve failed, what exactly are we failing at? If you quit something that’s no longer worth pursuing, that’s not a failure. That’s a success.
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…if you’re continuing to pursue something that’s no longer worth pursing, isn’t that a failure? How do we start to redefine that and thing about failure as failing to follow a good decision process?
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