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Jon and I related both as conspiratorial music fans and as young men in search of something. Jon would serve me as a friend and mentor, someone who’d been exposed to and held information I felt would augment my creativity and deepen the truth seeking I was trying to make a part of my music. We also had that instant chemical connection that says, “I know you.” Jon was better educated than most of my homeboys. I was interested in doing my job better and being great. Not good . . . great. Whatever that took, I was in. Now, if you don’t have the raw talent, you can’t will yourself there. But if you have the talent, then will, ambition and the determination to expose yourself to new thoughts, counterargument, new influences, will strengthen and fortify your work, driving you closer to home.

Born to Run

Bruce Springsteen

One of the best decisions I have made is that during much of my adult life, I have formed relationships with mentors. It was especially helpful while learning to trust my own instincts to be able to run a decision by one of them for confirmation. It is no coincidence that each of the self-actualized people described by Maslow had had considerable life experience. It takes many years to understand ourselves well enough to trust our own instincts.

The Ball's in Your Court

Michael Lewis

The second realization I had is that the pursuit of money can, at best, mitigate the frustrations in your career—yet the siren song of riches has confused and confounded some of the best in our society. In order to really find happiness, you need to continue looking for opportunities that you believe are meaningful, in which you will be able to learn new things, to succeed, and be given more and more responsibility to shoulder. There’s an old saying: find a job that you love and you’ll never work a day in your life. People who truly love what they do and who think their work is meaningful have a distinct advantage when they arrive at work every day. They throw their best effort into their jobs, and it makes them very good at what they do.

How Will You Measure Your Life?

Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon

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