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6 days ago | 
hackernoon.com | Scott Clary
Listen Here →The Hidden Business Strategy No One Talks AboutYour relationship is failing. Not your business relationships. The ones waiting for you at home while you "crush it" for another 14-hour day. While you're optimizing conversion rates and chasing investor meetings, your actual life is quietly unraveling. Your partner is building resentment. Your health is deteriorating. Your mind is fragmented. And you've convinced yourself this is the price of success. It's not.
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1 week ago | 
hackernoon.com | Scott Clary
Listen Here →"Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see the greatness within you, even when you don't see it yourself." — Edmund LeeYou're surrounded by the wrong people. I know that sounds harsh.
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1 week ago | 
hackernoon.com | Scott Clary
Listen Here →"People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are." - Steve JobsYour life's most painful regret is already taking shape. It's not what you're doing wrong. It's what you think you're doing right. Those "exciting opportunities" filling your calendar? Distractions in disguise. The partnerships. The side projects. The endless meetings. The new ventures.
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2 weeks ago | 
hackernoon.com | Scott Clary
Listen Here →You're chasing the wrong definition of wealth. Every day, you wake up and check your accounts. Revenue, profit, subscribers, followers. You're constantly monitoring metrics, always anxious about where you stand. You read about founders raising millions and feel that twinge of envy. You see competitors buying vacation homes while you're reinvesting every dollar into your business. You wonder when you'll finally make it.
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1 month ago | 
hackernoon.com | Scott Clary
Your bookshelf is full of half-read self-help books. Your phone has six productivity apps you downloaded and abandoned. Your notes are filled with morning routines you followed for exactly 9 days. I get it. I've been there – spending thousands on courses promising transformation while feeling like I was sprinting on a treadmill going nowhere. Self-improvement doesn't work as well as self-understanding.
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1 month ago | 
hackernoon.com | Scott Clary
Most people live as if the world is fixed. They accept circumstances as "just the way things are." They assume industries can't be disrupted. They believe systems are too entrenched to change. They see barriers as permanent rather than temporary. This mindset isn't just wrong. It's the single biggest limitation keeping you from creating the life, business, and impact you're capable of.
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2 months ago | 
hackernoon.com | Scott Clary
You've been lied to about excellence. They told you it's about grinding harder. About perfecting systems. About optimizing what already exists. That's not excellence. That's just the hamster wheel painted a different color. True excellence isn't about running the race better. It's about changing the track entirely. Richard Feynman didn't solve impossible physics problems by working harder than other scientists.
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2 months ago | 
hackernoon.com | Scott Clary
Your entire life will change when you realize this simple truth:Success is just survival with better storytelling. Let me say that one more time. Success is just survival with better storytelling. I've spent the last 6 years studying the most "successful" people on the planet. I've gone deep into their content, analyzed their businesses, joined their communities, and even worked alongside them. Here's what I discovered:Nobody has it figured out.
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2 months ago | 
hackernoon.com | Scott Clary
Most people are afraid of being alone with their thoughts. They fill every moment with noise, distraction, and cheap dopamine. Social media. Netflix. Group hangouts. Mindless scrolling. Anything to avoid the discomfort of their own company. The most productive time you will ever have is the time that seems most "boring" compared to others. Those hours of solitude. The long walks where you work through complex problems in your head.
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2 months ago | 
hackernoon.com | Scott Clary
Die Every NightI've been "dying" every night. Not physically, obviously. I'm sitting here typing this letter on a bright Thursday morning. But mentally, I've been killing my old self every evening to create space for a new version of me to emerge each morning. This isn't some weird spiritual practice or manifestation technique. It's a brutal mental model for making better decisions—one that has fundamentally changed how I approach my work, relationships, and creative projects.
