Change Your Mind, by Rod Judkins

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8.give the job

Successful creative people dedicate themselves to what they care about most. They don’t get a day job to pay the bills and reduce their real passion to a hobby. When Caesar landed in Britain, the Roman troops disembarked. Then he burnt their boats. Without boats, they couldn’t retreat. There was no safe way back. Everything became black and white. There was either success or death. Don’t give yourself the option of mediocrity and safety. If you have something to fall back on, chances are you will. Wasting your time and energy on something you don’t care about will come to seem natural. Under pressure from his family and banker father, Paul Cézanne was forced to study law at university. They believed it would lead to a safe and secure future. Cézanne felt crushed


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