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Good Advice For Filmmakers, Part 1276

Some good advice for filmmakers (as well as recent college grads) comes from Arthur C. Brooks in the NY Times last weekend:
1. Earn everything: people who do not feel responsible for their own successes spend 25 percent more time feeling sad than those who feel they are responsible.
2. Fail & rebound: the average entrepreneur fails almost four times before succeeding.
3. Help others: ask yourself whether you believe your work today benefited those with less than you.
4. Don’t postpone, live now: measure your life’s value as you see fit.
Good advice can come from all directions — right, left, above, and below.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/17/opinion/arthur-c-brooks-beware-the-city-dolls.html

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