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- Execution over ideas
Hello and happy Friday,
A few thoughts this week on execution over ideas:
One quote
Sue Grafton, author
"Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats”
One thought
In some ways, you have to insist upon your own success.
And that means repeatedly, relentlessly taking action to ensure it comes to pass.
Doing this will sometimes be exhausting.
But you’ll never regret it.
Two images
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1,128 days ago, 19-year-old sports journalist Fred Beck uploaded his first YouTube video.
In the 3 years since, he’s uploaded 1,500+ videos.
More than 1 a day, every day.
He’s now sitting at 113k subscribers.
You can listen to my recent conversation with Fred here.
II
Prior to KFC, a young Colonel Sanders worked as a farmer, streetcar conductor, army private, lawyer, insurance salesman and filling station operator.
And his recipe was rejected more than 1000 times before it was accepted by a franchisee in 1952.
He was 62 at the time.
And finally, One Last Thing:
Research by Harvard Business shows more than 30,000 new consumer products are launched each year, and over 90% of them fail.
Most ideas are bad.
Find the good ones not by brainstorming - but by trying again, and again, and again.
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Speak in a week,
Jordan