I’m going to let you in on my biggest growth hack.
If you follow this one thing, you are almost guaranteed to succeed.
Ready for it?
Fling people past you as far and as often as possible.
Connect others with opportunities.
Help them unlock the secret to fulfilling their dreams.
Do it often and with reckless abandon.
Cultivate your taste until you are so good that it becomes second nature. Don’t do it once or twice, do it so often that people come to you to ask personally because you’re so good at it.
Do it so well that both the person you helped succeed and the person looking for the connect are wildly successful in a way neither of them coul have predicted.
When you make something, try as hard as you can to get everyone you collaborated with their next jobs, and the ones after that.
Do it so often that when you look up all you see are stars you helped put there and then…
…ask nothing in return.
Just wait, and keep making your cool stuff, getting better and better with every passing day. Put it o…
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