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"Success isn't linear" by Yoann Bourgeois

Success is not a straight line upwards, it's a journey with many falls, and the strength to get up, no matter how hard the fall.

📹Mathieu Stern.

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A golf ball hitting a hard surface at 260 km/h.

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One of the best pranks of the past. 😂

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Incredible story caught on video of a shark and woman communicating with each other.

She was able to reach inside the sharks mouth pulling a hook out. 👀

This was in 1996 🦈

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A thread on famous paintings that influenced some of cinema's most iconic film scenes.. You'll be surprised by some of these..!

1. Alien 3, directed by David Fincher

Reference to : Girl’s Head beside a Skull by Rex Whistler

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[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

James Cameron has written & directed 3 of the top 4 highest-grossing movies of all time (Avatar, Avatar: The Way of Water, and Titanic).

Before he made movies, Cameron was a truck driver.

He didn't go to film school.

Instead, on the weekends, he would go to the library and..

"I'd pull any thesis that [University of Southern California] graduate students had written [on] anything that related to film technology," Cameron explained.

"And for the cost of xeroxing (photocopying), I [got] all these doctoral dissertations [and] build up these big binders on how everything was done."

"So I literally gave myself a full graduate course on film technology for about $120.

I didn’t have to enroll in school because it was all there in the library. I’d set it up to go in like I was on a tactical mission, find out what I needed to know, and take it all home."

Takeaway 1:

When asked what motivated him to read those big binders full of information on filmmaking, Cameron said he was just following what excited him.

"People seek out the information and knowledge they need," he said. "It's like a divining rod."

The mythologist Joseph Campbell similarly talked about how reading is like "a divining rod," a way to find what you are uniquely attracted to and meant to do.

"You’ve got to read," Campbell said. "Find [what] excites you. And if it doesn’t excite you…It’s not yours.”

Takeaway 2:

Of course, at some point, Cameron had to put the binders down and pick up a camera.

When he eventually attempted to make his first movie, Cameron said, “It was a bit like a doctor doing his first appendectomy after having only read about it."

The bestselling author and learning expert, Scott Young, has a great article with a great title, "Do The Real Thing."

"When you examine case studies of people who have had major accomplishments," Scott writes, "you expect there to be some trick or shortcut...More often, however, the strategy used is dead simple: doing the real thing."

Takeaway 3:

Leonardo da Vinci used to sign off his letters, “Leonardo da Vinci, disscepolo della sperientia” ("disciple of experience").

He used to believe that one learns best by solely "doing the real thing."

Over time, however, he evolved out of this belief and, biographer Walter Isaacson writes, "became a disciple of both experience and received wisdom."

When you examine case studies of people who have mastered their craft, you usually find they are "disciples of both experience and received wisdom."

Like Cameron, they read the library and they do the real thing.

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“Those who are in love with practice without theoretical knowledge are like the sailor who goes onto a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whither he is going.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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"They're not saying pity me, they're saying challenge me."

Meet Javeno McLean, the powerlifting champion and gym owner who trains disabled, ill and elderly people for free 🏋️

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Hey y’all. My best friend Dondré and his partner survived an apartment fire on Christmas morning. Although they and their dog made it out safely, they’ve lost everything. Any donations or retweets are so appreciated. https://t.co/gdJvFnSzgS

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