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Life isn’t about what happens to you, it’s about how you handle what happens to you

Prince Ea recently made a short video where he quoted a statistic of a study done on 300 world leaders — everybody from Martin Luther King…

3 min readOct 31, 2018

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Life isn’t about what happens to you, it’s about how you handle what happens to you

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John Raymonds
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Seeds to Grow a Life From

How to be a perpetual failure at nearly everything in life

Success? Who wants that kind of shit?

8 min readOct 8, 2018

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How to be a perpetual failure at nearly everything in life

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Ascent Publication

A Personal Battle with Grit

Recently, I found myself in a meeting where Angela Duckworth, author of the New York Times Best-Seller Grit, supplied a 35-minute keynote…

6 min readDec 28, 2017

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A Personal Battle with Grit

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John Raymonds

The Pace of Disruption

The general phenomenon is that society has not yet figured out how to deal with social media. I think in my kids generation they will be…

5 min readOct 25, 2017

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The Pace of Disruption

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Ascent Publication

When to Leave Your Mentor

The other day I was grateful to have an hour to spend with Gary Vaynerchuk in his office at Vaynermedia. It was 490 days after being picked…

5 min readJun 29, 2017

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When to Leave Your Mentor

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John Raymonds

Choose Your Friends With Caution

I used the following quote in a previous Medium story on changing your standards to change your life.

2 min readJun 7, 2017

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Choose Your Friends With Caution

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John Raymonds
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Ascent Publication

The Dangers of Goal Setting

Ah, the 1984 Ferrari 308 GTS Quattrovalvole. That was one of the first, and longest lasting, goals that I have ever had. The one pictured…

3 min readMay 24, 2017

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The Dangers of Goal Setting

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Ascent Publication

Advice to 2017(±) High School Graduates

Our education system is broken for the world as it is today and unfortunately you are a product of that broken system. The good news is you…

8 min readMay 10, 2017

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Advice to 2017(±) High School Graduates

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John Raymonds
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Ascent Publication

Pain, change, and business growth

I shared a little bit of my own story about a family business turnaround in a previous story here on Medium. In the end, few of the people…

4 min readApr 26, 2017

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Pain, change, and business growth

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John Raymonds

Find your passion through taking action

You may have seen the pie charts that show the realm of what you know, vs what you know you don’t know, vs (the largest area) of what you…

3 min readApr 14, 2017

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Find your passion through taking action

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John Raymonds

John Raymonds

Looking for the unique and outstanding in our everyday world - investor, movie maker, and geek philosopher. Follow me on Twitter and Instagram @jraymonds.

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