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" Anyone who faults Romney or Obama or any public figure for demanding quote approval is missing the point. The journalists were no abused weaklings here. They made a bargain for access to these newsworthy figures that they thought was in their favor - they're only complaining because they got caught. "
Approval
Complaining
Missing
" As authors, we're all trying to fight against obscurity and outside distractions, but it's a tough battle. "
Trying
Fight
Outside
" As I discovered in my media manipulations, the information that finds us online - what spreads - is the worst kind. It raised itself above the din not through its value, importance, or accuracy but through the opposite: through slickness, titillation, and polarity. "
Worst
Value
Media
" As someone responsible for my own fair share of marketing stunts, I am suspicious and cynical - I'll disclose that right up front. "
Right
Fair
I Am
" As tough an idea as it often is to stomach, the best way to thrive in a world that requires grunt work is to stop seeing it as grunt work. "
Work
Tough
Thrive
" Because we make ourselves deaf to feedback, because we overestimate our abilities, because we become consumed with ourselves, we end up subjecting ourselves not just to the inevitable stumbles or difficulties of life but catastrophic, painful failures. "
End
Deaf
Life
" Being criticized in the media is a good problem to have - most of the time. It means you're doing something that is at least interesting or cool or crazy enough to be noticed. It might not always feel good, but it's usually better than the alternative of obscurity. "
Crazy
Good
Cool
" Bloggers are lazy and greedy. "
Bloggers
Lazy
Greedy
" Brands are essentially forbidden from saying or associating themselves with the Olympics - something that has been commonly owned by Western Civilization since the Greeks - unless they hand over piles of cash to the Games. "
Games
Cash
Saying
" Do I regret how my life turned out? Of course not - not for a single second. "
How
Out
My Life
" Don't move to New York. Find your own city and your way. "
New York
New
Find
" Dr. Drew Pinsky changed my life. "
Changed
Dr
Drew
" Ego is certainly there in many of the greatest and most dizzying tales of success - but it's there in some of the greatest stories of failure and self-implosion as well. "
Failure
Greatest
Stories
" Even people who despise ego and aspire to humility, who plan to be humble once they are successful, are worried that actually enacting those beliefs would sentence them to a life of obscurity or weakness or failure. "
Life
People
Humility
" Every job carries occupational hazards. "
Job
Occupational
Hazards
" Every media appearance is a learning experience about the media outlet and their journalists and their feelings about you, so treat it as such. "
Treat
Learning
Media
" Everyone faces adversity. "
Adversity
Everyone
Faces
" Everyone needs to start doing interviews over email. Whether you're a journalist or a spokesperson speaking to the media, you're better off communicating questions, statements, or inquiries via email. "
Media
Questions
Better
" Growth hackers are typically computer engineers that build great marketing ideas into the product during the development process. "
Great
Build
Growth
" Growth hackers don't tolerate waste. "
Growth
Tolerate
Hackers
" Growth-hacking is about scalability - ideally, you want your marketing efforts to bring in users, which then bring in more users. "
Want
Marketing
Bring
" Growth hacking is a mindset, and those who have it will reap incredible gains. "
Hacking
Growth
Will
" Growth hacking isn't some proprietary technical process shrouded in secrecy. In fact, it has grown and developed in the course of very public conversations. There are no trade secrets to guard. "
Hacking
Trade
Secrets
" Growth hacking is the future of marketing. It has to be. "
Growth
Marketing
Hacking
" Here's the thing I've learned about ideas: It's your job to have them. "
About
Learned
Job
" I don't play videogames and generally think that online activism is a giant waste of time. "
Giant
Time
Play
" If it comes as a constant surprise each and every time something unexpected occurs, you're not only going to be miserable whenever you attempt something big, you're going to have a much harder time accepting it and moving on to attempts two, three, and four. "
Unexpected
Moving
Moving On
" If the media is a farce, why should you be the only one stuck with rules and restrictions? "
Why
Stuck
You
" If you ask most smart or successful people where they learned their craft, they will not talk to you about their time in school. It's always a mentor, a particularly transformative job, or a period of experimentation or trial and error. "
Smart
School
People
" If you need to fudge the facts a little bit to make your narrative work, there is nothing anyone can do to stop you. "
Stop
You
Need
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