You Have To Sit By The Side

Do Not Write To Impress Others. Authors Who Write To Impress People Have Difficulty Remaining True To Themselves. A Better Path Is To Write What Pleases You And Pray That There Are Others Like You. Your First And Most Important Reader Is You. If You Write A Book That Pleases You, At Least You Know One Person Will Like It.

Klout And Various Measurements Of Influence Are Fun. I Love To See Where I Score On Them, But There's A Computer Algorithm Behind The Calculation. If There's An Algorithm, It Can Be Gamed. Even If It's Not Gameable, You Have To Take A Leap Of Faith That The Number Of Followers, Retweets, Mentions, Whatever Really Mean Something.

If Achieving Success Were Easy, More People Would Do It.

Try Stuff. I Also Used To Believe That It's Better To Be Smart Than Lucky Because If You're Smart You Can Out-think The Competition. I Don't Believe That Anymore-this Is Not To Say That You Should Strive For A High Level Of Stupidity. My Point Is That Luck Is A Big Part Of Many Successes, So (a) Don't Get Too Bummed Out When You See A Bozo Succeed; And (b) Luck Favors The People Who Try Stuff, Not Simply Think And Analyze. As The Chinese Say, "one Must Wait For A Long Time With Your Mouth Open Before A Peking Duck Flies In Your Mouth."

Doing, Not Learning To Do, Is The Essence Of Entrepreneurship.