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The Revenge Tour Is Over. #RavenJ. 28all. Eya. The Warm-Up: “You should never write a press release. Because you do not need the press. Instead, build your own channel and put up a blog post, tweet, or video in your own words. You provide the content and your friends retweet to provide the distribution. And that’s how you go direct.” ~Balaji The Core: “It’s time to get everyone talking to each other, instead of at each other.” ~Naval Ravikant “There is nothing more anxiety-inducing than staying the same person year after year. Peace of mind is just constant growth.” ~Orange Book “Anger always outlasts hurt. Best to take the opposite course. Would anyone think it normal to return a kick to a mule or a bite to a dog?” ~Seneca “I honestly hope next year I’m not the [focal] point and the only person that gets attention. I hope as media, as players, we can spread the love a little bit more.” ~Paige Buekers, on next season “The irony of life: you attract what you wanted once you no longer need it. You get opportunities once you are already wealthy. You learn much faster once you are already skilled. You connect meaningfully with others once you are already loved. The more you have, the more you get.” ~Orange Book “Extraordinary results come from doing ordinary things exceptionally well for a long time. Take writing, for instance. Anyone can sit down and write a few paragraphs. There’s nothing extraordinary about putting words on a page. But if you commit to honing your craft, day after day, year after year, you can achieve something remarkable.” ~Shane Parrish “A-B-C-D-E-F-G, H-I-J-K, uh, M-N-O-P / That’s little me in the classroom askin’, ‘What’s L?’ (Uh) / I never been known to take those / Your girl saw me and her face froze / You better be lucky I’m faithful / Please test me, I ace those / My money been growin’ like eight fold, uh / But you know how I hate goals / I can’t tell if they turning green from the envy, or is it the fake gold? (Uh)…” ~J.Cole, H.Y.B “You think grandparents will live forever. But moving through that grief, as hard as it was, taught me something important. It opened up my perspective on life. I learned that you really gotta love the ones that love you, because you never know when that time might be up. I never want to be that person wishing I would’ve told the people I care about how much they really matter.” ~Jayden Daniels, A Few Words For My People Who Got Me Here “It doesn’t always end like you want it to end, much like last year. But my [seniors from last season] are at the top of my heart because they wanted this. It’s awesome. ...It’s unbelievable…When young people lock in and have a belief, and have a trust, and their parents have that same trust, this is what can happen. They made history. They etched their names in the history books.” ~Dawn Staley after South Carolina defeated the Iowa Hawkeyes 87-75 in the women’s NCAA tournament title “[Playas] ain’t ‘bout to outwork me / Go to sleep late, still wakin’ up early / Look at my belly, I’m hungry / Y’all [playas] desperate and thirsty / You can’t even tell there’s a difference / Hungry is when you’re relentless / Even when one of your idols look dead in your face and he tell you, / ‘You can’t’ and you know that he meant it / But when you Cole, you attempt it / Come, let me show you a template / I had to grow out the concrete / I had to stroll through the trenches, uh…” ~J.Cole, Trae The Truth in Ibiza Last Set: “Clients who haggle over their agency’s compensation are looking through the wrong end of the telescope. Instead of trying to shave a few measly cents off the agency’s fifteen per cent, they should concentrate on getting more sales results from the eighty-five per cent they spend on time and space. That is where the leverage is. No manufacturer ever got rich by underpaying his agency. Pay peanuts and you get monkeys.” ~David Ogilvy [Brain Food #571] Food For Thought: “Doubt is such a strange thing. You know, there’ll be times where you succeed, and there are times that you fail. So, wasting your time, doubting whether you’re going to be successful or not is pointless. It is. You just put one foot in front of the other. You control what you can control. And then you see what the outcome is, right? If you win, great. You’re going to have to wake up the next day and do the journey over again... If you lose, it sucks, but you have to wake up the next day and do the journey all over again anyway. So it’s really pointless to sit here and debate or have doubt on this, that, or the other. You train as hard as you can and you step out there and you let it flow.” ~Kobe Bryant, End of an Era: A Conversation With NBA Great Kobe Bryant
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