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No one will argue that writing is an easy profession. Getting someone to pay you for your words isn’t easy. But there are strategies you can use to simplify the process and transform what you can produce.

Ryan Holiday

Conning the conmen is one of life’s most satisfying pleasures.
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Life Pleasure Satisfaction
The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.
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Condition Forget Improvement Obstacle Opportunity Ourselves Path
It’s okay to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit. To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and keep inching closer until you take the impenetrable fortress you’ve decided to lay siege to in your own life-that’s persistence.
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Decision Encouragement Life Persistence Plant Quit Yourself
Our first idea is a grand opening, a big launch, a press release, or major media coverage. We default to thinking we need an advertising budget. Our delusion is that we should be Transformers and not The Blair Witch Project.
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Cover Ideas Media Opening Project Transformation
I run 5 miles every night. It’s where I go to digest my day, hash out the multitude of information that’s been poured into me in the last wild six months or so, and to try and condense it down to some sort of cohesive strategy to live my life by.
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Day Digest Life Live Myself Night Strategy
An entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before.
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Entrepreneur Faith Inspirational Invention
Failure shows us the way – by showing us what isn’t the way.
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Failure Ourselves Show Way
Am I saying this because I want to prove how smart I am or am I saying this because it needs to be said?
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Evidence Myself Need Smart
Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.
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Action Body Follow Head Perspective Right
ADVERSITY CAN HARDEN YOU. OR IT CAN LOOSEN YOU UP AND MAKE YOU BETTER —IF YOU LET IT.
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Adversity Choice Hard Time Yourself
The most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger.
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Angry Online Powerful Predication
No one will argue that writing is an easy profession. Getting someone to pay you for your words isn’t easy. But there are strategies you can use to simplify the process and transform what you can produce.
RYAN HOLIDAY

Argument Easy Pay Production Professional Simplicity Transformation Writing Yourself
Ordinary people shy away form negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great people do is the opposite. They are their best in these situations. They turn personal tragedy or misfortune – really anything, everything – to their advantage.
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Advantage Negative Ordinary People Personal Situation
What is known can’t jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.
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Explicit Known Resolution
Problems are rarely as bad as we think-or rather, they are precisely as bad as we think.
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Bad Problem Rare Thinking
Great times are great softeners.
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Greatness Soft Time

No one will argue that writing is an easy profession. Getting someone to pay you for your words isn’t easy. But there are strategies you can use to simplify the process and transform what you can produce.

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No one will argue that writing is an easy profession. Getting someone to pay you for your words isn’t easy. But there are strategies you can use to simplify the process and transform what you can produce.

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