Dumbledore's Army

[MrBeast @MrBeast]

I’m gonna give 10 random people that repost this and follow me $25,000 for fun (the $250,000 my X video made)

I’ll pick the winners in 72 hours

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@presleymeow Haven’t slept yet, 1 like = 1 prayer

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

SPURS STEAL IT FROM KD TO WIN IT 😱

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@DarrinFate @br_betting @PokerNews The “dealer” is actually the casino owner, and this did happen overseas I believe.

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My first time sweeping a week in fantasy baseball.

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

In 2016, Pharrell Williams visited an N.Y.U. music production class to critique student songs.

After he listened to a song called “Alaska” by a student named Maggie Rogers, Pharrell said, “Wow. I have zero, zero, zero notes for that.”

“And I'll tell you why” he said. Because...

“You're doing your own thing. It's singular. It's like when the Wu-Tang Clan came out—no one could really judge it. You either liked it or you didn't, but you couldn't compare it to anything else.

And that is such a special quality, and all of us possess that ability.”

Takeaway 1:

The source of your power, Robert Greene says, is your uniqueness.

We say of genius, as Pharrell said of Rogers' song:

"They're 1 of a kind."

"They're singular."

So are you, Robert likes to point out: No one has ever had your DNA, your experiences, your perspective.

Embrace your uniqueness. Express it in your work.

Takeaway 2:

The video with Pharrell went viral & Maggie Rogers, seemingly overnight, was a pop star.

But…

Rogers started playing music when she was 7. She started songwriting a few years later. In high school, she attended courses at the Berklee College of Music. During her senior year, she recorded her first album, which is what got her accepted to the N.Y.U. music school and the opportunity to play one of her songs in front of Pharrell.

As Rogers later said of the viral video, “My many, many years of focus and hard work got kind of packaged into a Cinderella story.”

Ryan Holiday's line is, "All success is a lagging indicator."

All success is a function of the previous work put in.

“When a day’s writing goes well,” Ryan writes, “it’s a lagging indicator of hours and hours spent researching and thinking…Hitting a personal record on the bench press is a lagging indicator of a lot of discipline and hard work. Receiving a promotion is a lagging indicator of a lot of quality work. Delivering a keynote with confidence is a lagging indicator of a lot of preparation.”

Getting packaged as a Cinderalla story is a lagging indicator of many, many years of focus and hard work.

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“It seems to me that each of us expressing our own originality is the essence of our art and professionalism.” — Jim Henson

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My Queen 👸

[presley ⋆｡𖦹°⭒˚｡⋆ @presleyplz]

If you see this, QT with the most recent photo you took of your pet. No cheating.

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@DrJesseMorse @TheFantasyDRS @4mostt

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@morganhousel Accurate? @4mostt

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@andyholloway @FFHitman @jasonmoore @TheFFBallers more like Darnell Mooned-Me… right Jason?

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While people watching at a Starbucks I overheard this girl asking for a straw. I just thought it was funny because she had that tribal turtle tattoo on her thigh. #savetheturtles

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@CryptoKass_ @sappyseals @Sharpp @nik_the_general @EastCoastNFT @ThePixlverse @ThePlagueNFT @pudgypenguins @doodles @RooTroopNFT @ShmortyMorty my only NFT friend 😞

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@SrslySirius @CoherentDeeb @ShmortyMorty

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@MLB @ShmortyMorty wow I convinced myself not to have him in DK

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@ShmortyMorty apeeeex

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Bored Ape vs CryptoPunk rap battle | Rap Off https://t.co/J2bSMAr6a2 via @YouTube. “Since they were first, this ape reversed the blockchain of evolution” 🔥 from @IllmacTV

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Us 30+ year olds finishing off a weekend of Coachella

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@ShmortyMorty @PaniniAmerica @NBA @Drake Lol my cousin tagged me too. About to get some more cards Friday

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@ShmortyMorty Lmao 🤣 😂 good one!

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@tio_twist 👀

[ESPN @espn]

Ja Morant breaks the franchise's regular-season record for points in a game as the Grizzlies hold off the Bulls' comeback.