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You Need to Hang out with the Mad Ones If You Want to Be Successful

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In 1997, Apple founder Steve Jobs released an ad campaign that would change history. I was studying sound engineering during this era. Everyone around me went from using PCs to Macs because of this ad. Using a Mac was cool again. Steve Jobs wrote that the crazy ones are the people who change history. They’re unignorable. They don’t give a f*ck what people think. Without them, humans wouldn’t progress and creativity would die. We need the mad ones. I’m mad. Those of you reading this Substack are mad. Each of us is doing big things. We’re thinking bigger than those stuck on the hamster wheel of life. Writer Zach Pogrob expanded on this idea further. He says we need to spend more time around the mad ones. That has been true for my life too. Here’s what it means to be a “mad one.” The mad ones make the impossible, possible. Not in a grandiose, look at me, look at me, kind of way. No. But in a quiet way that allows them to overcome common challenges the average person is destroyed by. The i

You Need to Hang out with the Mad Ones If You Want to Be Successful We don’t need more information to figure out our lives. We need more emotion. We need to feel something because 99% of society is numb to everything. Tim Denning Jul 30, 2024 264 46 44 Share Article voiceover 0:00 -10:45 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Image credit-Midjourney Share There’s nothing better than someone who is bat sh*t crazy. In 1997, Apple founder Steve Jobs released an ad campaign that would change history. I was studying sound engineering during this era. Everyone around me wen

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