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cmos
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Kevin Smith’s Secrets To A Successful Life
What tragic thought! While his path may not be laced with such obvious success as Kevin Smith, the whole point of the tweet is that all it requires is passion and a willingness to follow it. Surely anyone is capable of that.
levesque
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Replace willingness by motivation and focus. Everybody is willing to do something, not everyone will find the willpower to do it.
nswanberg
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If you want a book-length version of the same advice, read Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, a curious depression-era classic:
http://books.google.com/books?id=c86H36mgiM4C&lpg=PP1...
foljs
on Dec 20, 2010
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