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If You Want to Be a Full Time Creator, You Need to Reach Escape Velocity
Work with blistering intensity
You’re sitting there at your computer. It’s been 10 hours since you started work, and there’s still more to do. You keep going as your eyes dry into raisins.
Nobody wants that, right?
We want the 4-Hour Work Week Tim Ferris promised us!
But there’s a problem. The premise of the 4-hour Work Week is that Tim Ferris was killing himself doing 80-hour weeks and couldn’t take it anymore, so he streamlined.
But without first doing those 80-hour weeks, he wouldn’t have been able to build his business in the first place.
You can’t jump in at 4 hours of effort a week and expect amazing results.
You need to work with blistering intensity BEFORE you scale back.
You’ve Got to Hit Escape velocity
You can’t put the cart before the horse.
Entrepreneurial projects need to reach a certain escape velocity before they can succeed. At least, that’s what Mark Manson thinks. Only after that can you do your 20 hours a week.
The same goes for becoming a creator. Once you are established as the authority in your space, you…
