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Maslow stated that, ‘We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments; under the most perfect conditions, under conditions of greatest courage we enjoy and even thrill to the godlike possibilities we see in ourselves at such peak moments, and yet simultaneously shiver with weakness, awe and fear before the same possibilities.’

Fear - The Friend of Exceptional People

Geoff Thompson

Is your current success the result of highly focused goals or a side optimization? Curious whether your current path was always the goal or became the goal. 1 11 Paul Graham @paulg · Jun 6 It's the result of alternating periods of not having goals, and then having very specific ones. Sort of like a soccer player during a game. Sometimes you're just drifting in the right general direction, other times you're going all out for a 50-50 ball.

(21) Paul Graham on Twitter: "One Thing I've Learned as an Adult That I Didn't Realize as a Kid Is How Precisely You Have to Aim at a Goal to Hit It. If You Choose to Optimize Something Even Slightly Off to the Side, You'll Sometimes Achieve Almost Nothing Toward Your Intended Goal." / Twitter

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saying there were “no hits,” “nothing that could be played on the radio.” I went to the beach and wrote “Spirit in the Night,” came home, busted out my rhyming dictionary and wrote “Blinded by the Light,” two of the best things on the record. I was able to find Clarence, who’d been MIA since that first night in the Prince, and I got his cool saxophone on those last two cuts. It made a big difference. This was the most fully realized version of the sound I had in my head that I would get on my first album. The pre–E Street band did their best to sound studio-worthy while the words flowed like a storm surge, crashing into one another with no regret. I never wrote completely in that style again. Once the record was released, I heard all the Dylan comparisons, so I steered away from it. But the lyrics and spirit of Greetings came from an unself-conscious place. Your early songs emerge from a moment when you’re writing with no sure prospect of ever being heard. Up until then, it’s been just you and your music. That only happens once.

Born to Run

Bruce Springsteen

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