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" 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. "

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Discipline

Victory

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" When I lived in Louisiana, 'Django Unchained' was shot at my neighbor's house. They shot a Sly Stallone movie in my gym. "

" Watching well-meaning authors follow in the footsteps of someone going in the wrong direction breaks my heart. "

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Someone

Direction

" Stoicism is a philosophy designed for the masses, and if it has to be simplified a bit to reach the masses, so be it. "

" Times change. Context changes. Just because something is old and a 'part of our history' shouldn't mean we are forced to honor it forever. "

" Virality, at its core, is asking someone to spend their social capital recommending or linking or posting about you for free. "

" In 2007, I went to work in Beverly Hills as an intern at The Collective, a talent management agency. I'd been scouted for the job because of a blog I'd started in college and because the blogger-turned-author I worked for, Tucker Max, was producing a project with the company. "

" It's your job to find a release and an outlet for the stress and the feelings. Never forget: the crazy stays at home. "

" We all have goals: We want to matter. We want to be important. We want to have freedom and power to pursue our creative work. We want respect from our peers and recognition for our accomplishments. Not out of vanity or selfishness, but of an earnest desire to fulfill our personal potential. "

" I know how hard authors work on their books and how far out of their element many are when it comes to doing the sales and marketing. So when I see someone doing it wrong and giving bad advice, I do my best to help - even when they're not my clients. "

" The idea that only the swaggering, all-knowing, and ruthlessly ambitious succeed is a lie. One that has discouraged so many people with so much potential - and worse, encouraged many more to crash and burn. "

" 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. "

" Like most reasonable people, it saddens me when I see Americans celebrating a heritage they don't understand. "

" You can't believe your own marketing. "

" My parents disagreed sharply with me over the decision to leave school. "

Ryan Holiday

Decision

Leave

" 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. "

" Dr. Drew Pinsky changed my life. "

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Changed

Drew

" The primary occupational hazard of blogging is this: it's easier when you yourself take on some of the traits of insanity. It's a job that requires the doer to be selfish, self-absorbed, and superficial. "

" Self-imposed discipline with a bent towards results rather than 'creative' and sustainability spending is unfortunately not the norm in the marketing industry. "

" Perfectionism rarely begets perfection, or satisfaction - only disappointment. "

" The media, when it's functioning properly, protects the public against marketers and their ceaseless attempts to trick people into buying things. "

" No matter how commonplace or dull your first job's duties seem, chances are you can find something to do that others don't want to and make it your own. "

" Growth hackers are typically computer engineers that build great marketing ideas into the product during the development process. "

" Public relations and marketing are something companies do to move product. It is not meaningful. It is not cool. Yet because it is cheap, easy, and lucrative to cover, blogs want to convince you that it is. "

" The risks of speaking extemporaneously are apparent the first time you wing it and promptly put your foot in your mouth. "

" Every job carries occupational hazards. "

" Life is hard, but we make it much harder. "

" 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. "

" It angers me to see armed defenders at the bottom of Lost Cause statues, adding a renewed threat of violence to icons that are themselves part of an ideology of violence and intimidation. "

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Violence

See

" We often learn the hard way that our world is ruled by external factors. We don't always get what is rightfully ours, even if we've earned it. "