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" Leveraging community intelligence and making connections is a key component to being a growth hacker. "
Ryan Holiday
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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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Virality, at its core, is asking someone to spend their social capital recommending or linking or posting about you for free. "
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" If the media is a farce, why should you be the only one stuck with rules and restrictions? "
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" It's your job to find a release and an outlet for the stress and the feelings. Never forget: the crazy stays at home. "
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" When I dropped out of school at 19 to start my first job in Hollywood, I didn't know anything, and I had no idea where I'd end up. Thankfully, I was attached to some smart and forgiving people who let me learn under them. "
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" As authors, we're all trying to fight against obscurity and outside distractions, but it's a tough battle. "
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" If you need to fudge the facts a little bit to make your narrative work, there is nothing anyone can do to stop you. "
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" Take pride in your work. But it is not all there is. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" What I've found in my research is that realism and self-honesty are the antidote to ego, hubris, and delusion. "
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" We only have so much energy for our work, for our relationships, for ourselves. A smart person understands this and guards it carefully. Meanwhile, idiots focus on marginal productivity hacks and gains while they leak out energy each passing day. "
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" Online journalism has always had a sourcing problem. From using unverified 'anonymous tips' to repeating whatever rumor or speculation people are chattering about, the general ethic is, 'We'll publish just about anything.' "
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" Stoicism is a philosophy designed for the masses, and if it has to be simplified a bit to reach the masses, so be it. "
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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. "
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" The news as entertainment is the real danger, because the truth or accuracy of what it is reporting becomes irrelevant. "
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" 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. "
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