Read this article. Watch this video.
Believe in what you do. This isn’t ironic to me. I believe in this. I really do.
Apple Products are great. And incredible. And stunning. And the people at Apple aren’t shy to tell everyone. It is a mantra. Group speak. Believe in what you do. Success begets more success.
I fall deeply in love with what I believe in - the Washington Capitals; Washington Mystics; SnagFilms; my filmmaking; Revolution Money; Clearspring Technologies; and the good old days at AOL as examples. I believe. I am a zealot. ”Incredible - great – stunning.” I am not afraid to say it. Go ahead and make fun but belief and love and passion rule the day.
Totally agree, Ted. “Love and passion rule the day” — which is why I continue to follow #4 in whatever color he chooses to wear. While it’s not easy for diehard Cheeseheads like me to watch Brett wearing purple, why should he give up the game he is a zealot about? You, me, all the old Greenhouse folks, we were passionate then about pioneering the digital era — and most of us have stayed that way. Thanks, as always, for telling it like it is (or should be).
Over the past year; as people have asked me what I am doing, what I have been working on, what my plans are for this, what I see as the future, I tell them. I have repeatedly listened to people; friends, strangers, young, old, middle aged, parents, housemates, tell me that one can not just say that these are the things that will happen because there is no way to know what will happen or whether you will find success or not. People tell me that I can not just decide to found an INC. make it profitable, take it public and become wealthy simply because I say it will happen.
I have been told that a person can not just say, “I am launching a clothing line and will realize my company as a top earner in the industry.
I tell them that, in fact, this is exactly how it is done. The out-of-hand dismissal of the mere existance of possibility and any ability of the individual to determine oveall outcomes the fundamental and first obstical standing in the way or anyone acomplishing anyting.
To say one can not just set a goal and then realize it seems to me the powerlessness of the individual. The individual as powerless I see as the chosen way-of-being of majority of US individuals thereby making up a US citizenry that is powerless. The first job anyone who seeks to accomplish anything in his or her life or American and World societies is to somehow dispel the widely held belief that the individual has no power and is unable to affect real change in their communities, nations, and the world.
That what we see on the evening news exists seperate from us and is unreachable and unalterable; that we may only watch, internalize the images, words, persona, exchanges, conversations, advertising, et. al. and feel powerless.
When that wall has been successfully traversed the second and possibly much tougher obstacle is to build teams. In my humble opinion; getting individuals to work together and then with others in multiple teams numbering 2, 3, 4, to hundreds and thousands as part of multiple larger and greater teams should be a dynamic at work in our society that we work to devine.
I don’t think that individuals are ready to work with others because it is something that he or she has never really done. They don’t even have a concept of this kind of joint effort towards shared goals