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That's the number 10 East.co. One of my favorite ideas is from the poet Christopher Morley who who said, he said it many different ways different times, he said,

the only success in life is to live it in your own way.

And I love that because it's so true independence autonomy just doing whatever you want to do is one thing

but I think more important is almost what he didn't say but implied which is that your way might be different from my way and

different from somebody else's way. There is no one way you just have to find

your way and do it. The ultimate success metric, I think for anything in life, is just whether you get what you want out of life,

whether you got what you aspire to get. That's, how could it get more simple than that?

But it is so much harder than it sounds because it is way easier and more common to try to copy somebody who wants something that you don't

Let me tell you a little story of something I've seen happened to two writers.

I've seen this happen twice and it made me sad each time.

You take an incredibly talented young writer who has a big blog

following. They join a big media company, a big newspaper, where they quickly

fizzled into irrelevance.

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