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Work better

Mindset is everything. Learn from the best.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

  1. Source material.
  2. Steal like an artist.
  3. Have a message.
  4. Speed.
  5. Study, memorize, internalize.

Prince Rogers Nelson

  1. Work fast.
  2. Become a finisher.
  3. Abandon perfectionism.
  4. Make art every day.
  5. Sleep.
  6. Vault mentality.

Miyamoto Musashi

  1. Accept everything just the way it is.
  2. Do not regret what you have done.
  3. Be indifferent to where you live.
  4. To know ten thousand things, know one well.
  5. Never let yourself be saddened by a separation.
  6. Seek nothing outside of yourself.
  7. No matter where you go, there you are.

Yuto Horigome

  1. In Japan, skateboarding is really frowned upon. Maybe because of that, having to overcome that, I think it made me a stronger person.
  2. Having trust in yourself is the most important thing. Having the confidence in yourself.

A$AP Rocky

  1. Anything worth being, anything historical, anything new, anything impossible, all that shit takes sacrifice. And it takes risk.
  2. When you doing something creative and shit, and everything feels too easy, that's a red flag. That means its beneath you. You gotta go hard.
  3. Keep hungry and motivated. There's always more you can do. The world is yours.
  4. I want everybody to be their own pioneers. Dream big. If you're an outcast, be an outcast. If you fit in, fit in. Just be yourself.
  5. Imitation is the best form of flattery. If people wasn't trying to imitate you, you're doing something wrong.

Grant Sanderson

  1. A little ingredient that makes following your dreams a little more likely to work out is to ask yourself what's possible now that wasn't possible 10 years ago and which might get harder 10 years from now.
  2. My final piece of advice is to not treat passion as something to follow. Think of it as an initial velocity vector. It gives a clear direction to point yourself and loving what you do can have you move quickly. But you should expect and you should even hope that the specific direction that you're moving changes based on the force vectors around you.
  3. The mechanism behind the exponential function is that it applies when the rate of change is proportional to the thing in and of itself. The things that you develop should enable increasingly greater development of those things.

Shūzō Matsuoka

  1. Are you just living day to day? Are you lost and confused? You can't think about the past. It'll just turn to anger. You also can't think about the future. It just turns to worry. In that case, hold on for dear life. Stake your entire life in the here and now. If you live in the here and now, you will be ALIVE!
  2. Be more passionate. Burn the passionate blood. When people become passionate, they find their true selves. Be more passionate!

Beau Miles

  1. Adventure isn’t about where you go, but how you see the world.
  2. Life’s best lessons are often found off the beaten path.
  3. I’ve come to realise that everything is a waste of time unless you think of it otherwise.
  4. When something familiar to you feels exotic, you're winning.

My work ethic

Here are some things I practise. I am still learning.

  1. Make useless distraction impossible
  2. Read more
  3. Write more thoughtfully
  4. Create and produce fast, like you're being chased
  5. Never be afraid to be seen trying
  6. Be picky with your tastes
  7. Know your audience
  8. Know who you are
  9. Express yourself clearly in your own way
  10. Be content and find the fun where you are

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