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Climbing ladders | Derek Sivers

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Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.

Climbing ladders 2009-09-06 Do you know the story of how John Lennon met Yoko Ono? He went to a friend’s art gallery and saw an empty room with a tall ladder going up to the ceiling. He climbed to the top of the ladder, and there was just a magnifying glass which, if held up to the ceiling, revealed a little tiny word “yes”. He loved it, and asked about the artist. It was Yoko, and that’s how they met. In the early 1990s I met this girl, and hit it off right away. When I mentioned that I would love to find someone like Yoko, and really admired her work, her eyes went big and she said,…

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