5,127 tries at one vacuum cleaner
James Dyson spent five years building the same vacuum cleaner. About 5,127 prototypes. His wife's salary as an art teacher helped pay for a good part of it. And when he finally had one that worked?…
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James Dyson spent five years building the same vacuum cleaner. About 5,127 prototypes. His wife's salary as an art teacher helped pay for a good part of it. And when he finally had one that worked?…
1 min readSunday evening. The head starts doing the list. Didn't finish this. Still haven't started that. Somebody else is already further. It always measures the same way. From where you are to where you want…
1 min readTuesday question: how long is your "one day I will" list? :D Mine has stuff on it that sat there for years. Learn a language, write more, finally start that side idea. Not because there was no time.…
1 min readSara Blakely wanted to be a lawyer. She failed the LSAT twice. So she took what was there. A job in a chipmunk costume at Disney World. Then seven years selling fax machines door to door. She starte…
1 min readWaiting for Monday is one of the most comfortable lies there is. New week, clean page, then I'll start. And Monday comes, and something comes up, and the clean page moves to the next Monday. It's…
1 min readFriday evening and my feed is full of people launching, raising, hiring, winning. Nobody posts the week where nothing worked, right? :D Comparing your middle to someone else's highlight is the…
1 min readWhen KFC first opened in his city, Jack Ma went in looking for a job. 24 people applied that day. 23 walked out hired. He was the only one sent home. By then he had already failed his university exam…
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Nobody sees the small stuff. The glass of water before the coffee. Ten minutes of walking even when it's getting dark early now. Making the bed when no one is coming over. Easy to skip. None of it…
1 min readIf yo ucould get back to the time when you were 20 or even yonger, what one thing you would say to yourself? I prob would ask myself to never do... and never try... and do more..:D You get the point.
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Some evenings you look back at the day and it feels like you did almost nothing. For a long time a day like that felt like losing to me. Like the streak broke. Like the line went dead and everyone…
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