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6 things I wish I knew the day I started Berklee | Derek Sivers

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This is a talk I gave to incoming first-year students at Berklee College of Music today: September 5, 2008.

This is a talk I gave to incoming first-year students at Berklee College of Music today: September 5, 2008. #1 : Focus. Disconnect. Do not be distracted. My favorite part of the movies is the training sequence, where a young Bruce Wayne, Neo, or Kung-Fu Panda goes to a remote location to be trained relentlessly, nonstop, past all breaking points, until they emerge as a master. The next few years can be your training sequence, if you focus. Unfortunately you’re not in Siberia. You’re surrounded by distractions. You’re surrounded by cool tempting people, hanging out casually, telling you to rela

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