Barbara Cortland broke the world record. In 1983, she wrote 23 novels. She was 82 years old. Two novels a month that year. Altogether she wrote 723 published novels. The last she wrote at age 97. When she died a year later, there were 160 unpublished novels still waiting to be published. (Location 645)
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7.“You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse.” This is incredibly important. News reporters have zero qualifications to inform people and yet they are all doom and gloom to sell subscriptions. But people who choose themselves first imagine a better world and then imagine how to make the leap to get there. (Location 1296)
B) TO MASTER ANYTHING, TALK TO THE EXPERTS Tony told us about a time when he was 24 years old and he wanted to train members of the military to shoot better. “I had never shot a gun in my life,” he said and laughed in his raspy voice. He was scared he wouldn’t do a good job. So how did he solve this problem? He spoke to five excellent sharpshooters, figured out what they all had in common, and then used that to increase the results of the students in the school by 50%. C) BRING THE TARGET CLOSER Specifically, he had every student bring the target only a few feet away. Everyone shot bull’s-eyes. Then he moved the target back a foot. Bull’s-eyes. Then another foot. And so on. This is true for everything in life. I look at the example Mark Cuban told me. He didn’t just start Broadcast.com and make $1 billion. First he started a bar. Then he started a computer business. Then a hedge fund. He brought the target very close and then moved it further and further away as he succeeded at each thing. It reminds me how I taught my daughter to serve in tennis when she was 12. “All you have to do is hit the ball into this huge box.” Then when she got 10 in a row, I had her move back a few feet until she hit the base line. Now she’s the most consistent server on her team (I’m bragging). (Location 2852)
