Getting off track is built in to the process of making a change. If you are trying to eat better, exercise, or change any longstanding behavior or habit, there’s a very high probability that more than once you will get off track.
Absolutely OK if it happens, and it’s immaterial to your ultimate success, as long as you don’t give up.
And what was I? Of my creation and creator I was absolutely ignorant, but I knew that I possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property. I was, besides, endued with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome; I was not even of the same nature as man. I was more agile than they and could subsist upon coarser diet; I bore the extremes of heat and cold with less injury to my frame; my stature far exceeded theirs. When I looked around I saw and heard of none like me. Was I, then, a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?
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You might be familiar with the concept of the minimum viable product, or MVP. Instead of trying to develop something perfect and then unveiling it like Steve Jobs at Macworld, you create the simplest possible version of what you’re offering and start selling it right away. That way, instead of endlessly refining something in a vacuum, you use feedback from actual customers to incrementally develop an offering people absolutely want to buy in the real world.
Asgari uygulanabilir ürün veya MVP kavramına aşina olabilirsiniz. Mükemmel bir şey geliştirmeye çalışıp onu Macworld'deki Steve Jobs gibi ortaya çıkarmak yerine, sunduğunuz şeyin mümkün olan en basit versiyonunu yaratır ve onu hemen satmaya başlarsınız. Bu şekilde, bir şeyi boşlukta sonsuza kadar geliştirmek yerine, insanların gerçek dünyada kesinlikle satın almak isteyeceği bir teklifi aşamalı olarak geliştirmek için gerçek müşterilerden gelen geri bildirimleri kullanırsınız.
Landon looks like his favorite Greek statues when he’s coming—an absolutely stunning god, but cold and cryptic.
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Trauma can also change a person beyond recognition. Sometimes you look at other people, then look in the mirror, and you feel hollow inside. You think, how did I become like this? I don’t even recognize myself.
Ordinary people pursue things, nothing but houses, cars, careers, love, position, dreams. They’re busy every day, each one of them holding a bellyful of worries and happiness. Their worries are genuine feelings, and their happiness is sincere. They don’t know what ‘inconstancy’ is. They think that today is the same as yesterday is the same as tomorrow. They won’t think, ‘I’m only an ant sitting on a dead leaf floating in the river that can overturn any time.’
But you’re different. You can’t spend your days like that. You’re like a hen that’s had its feathers scared off by a firework and can’t lay eggs anymore.—You look at other people and think that all the things they’re pursuing are illusions. You can’t treat them as real. They can vanish just like that. You have nightmares every day. Your head is full of vain hopes. You’re irritable, worried, anxious for absolutely no reason…
And It doesn’t pass. These things never pass.
It’s not always sunshine and roses over here, and sometimes the dark can get pretty dark, but it’s filled with people who understand, and just enough laughter to soften the edges and get you through to the next day. So: go. Go be absolutely, positively, fucking angelic.
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