Blog Category: Impression Technique

Failure is not good. Failure is the worst thing possible. You feel sick. You feel like you’re going to die. You feel like if you don’t die you might kill yourself. There is absolutely nothing good about failure. And there’s nothing you can pretend to learn from failure. Lately, we’ve been living in the Golden […]

She said “No” to me and slammed the door. She was on my paper route. I asked out every girl on my paper route. All three of them. I liked having a captive audience. I’d hand them the paper and say, “Want to go to a movie?” They all said “No.” Well, one girl said, […]

In 2005, I had a business going down the drain (my biggest customer went out of business) and I had no other source of income. I couldn’t believe how scared I was. I don’t know why: but I became obsessed with “The Force” in Star Wars. I bought all sorts of books like “The Tao […]

The best way to “choose yourself” is to help others. There’s never in history been such a thing as people doing it by themselves. There are no “lone geniuses”. The other day I mentioned come creative pairs. I’ll mention more: George Lucas and Marcia Lucas (Marcia was the editor on Star Wars and is the […]

He dropped out of high school. Started a company that didn’t work. Read a lot. Then started another company. He wanted me to advise his company. I didn’t do it. But we spoke for awhile about his being a high school dropout. He said, “Once I figured out how I can learn to learn then […]

Although you probably won’t care. Why would you care what I have to say? — Hi James, you’re 106 years old. Congrats! Boy, I never thought you would get there. You were too stressed. It’s not like you’re an athlete or anything. I’m writing you this letter but you don’t even give a shit. You’re […]

First off, you might wonder how I could reach you from the future. I can’t tell you that. Stop asking. Second, don’t believe anything in this letter. This is not an advice letter. You don’t need any advice from me. After 22 you have some very happy moments and some very unhappy moments. Surprise! I […]