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Win In The Dark (Upcoming book)
So many people crave attention and illustrious skills, but they skip the work, and completely misunderstand the journey needed to acquire them. They get obsessed with the limelight, the flash, and the glamour. But that’s not how it works.
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So many people crave attention and illustrious skills, but they skip the work, and completely misunderstand the journey needed to acquire them. They get obsessed with the limelight, the flash, and the glamour. But that’s not how it works.
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You don’t shine under the bright lights. The bright lights only reveal your work in the dark.
At camp 35, we start our training before the sun comes up every day to sear this belief deep into our hearts.
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At camp 35, we start our training before the sun comes up every day to sear this belief deep into our hearts.
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The dark is the unseen hours, years, and decades of gut-wrenching, exhausting, tedious, and sometimes even boring work you complete with nobody watching.
The dark is the unnoticed and unthanked things you do when no ones watching.
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The dark is the unnoticed and unthanked things you do when no ones watching.
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The dark is what you do when everyone else has gone home.
The dark is what you do when everyone else is partying.
The dark is what you do when everyone else is slumbering.
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The dark is what you do when everyone else is partying.
The dark is what you do when everyone else is slumbering.
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Most people will never see your work in the dark. And when you emerge after years and sometimes even decades of training, they often undercut your work and have the audacity to call you an ‘overnight success’ and ‘freakishly talented.’
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“They” don’t realize that talent is only the starting line.
“They” don’t realize talent is overrated.
“They” don’t realize talent is never enough.”
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“They” don’t realize talent is overrated.
“They” don’t realize talent is never enough.”
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Marco spoke with the conviction of someone who learned this wisdom firsthand through much success and even more failure.
“Behind every “overnight success” is tens of thousands of unseen hours training and failing in the dark.
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“Behind every “overnight success” is tens of thousands of unseen hours training and failing in the dark.
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“And I want to let you know ahead of time that it’s not the hard training in the dark that causes most people to give up on their dreams. Rather, it is the mental barriers they must face while in the dark.”
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He got up and turned off the light above the bench. Marco loved driving his points home with illustrations. He continued, with neither of them able to see the other.
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“The dark is where you confront the little voice in your head trying to convince you that you are a fraud, that you’ll never make it, and that you are going to be ‘exposed.’
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