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Projects and life have a lot in common
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When I had no money, I spent my days around people who criticized others. Failures focus on hating. Failures assume malice. Failures obsess over what they don’t like. ​ ​ Successful people always find a reason to go further. And the explanation is simple: Because slavery takes away the heaviest burden in the universe: responsibility. That’s why even when a slave escapes and accidentally makes money, they immediately search for something new to enslave themselves to: meetings, commitments, micro-management. Look… This is simple. ​ That’s the first thing I’d do if I were living in slavery. ​ The third? Learn. Want more. Yes. I talk about life. Your life. My life. And projects. PPP projects. Any kind of project. Don’t pass the hot potato. Assume your responsibility. Learn. Thrive. People still believe that to learn you need to suffer. But no. It’s more simpler than that. Lessons about life and projects below.
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