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We are all antennae for creative thought. Some transmissions come on strong, others are more faint. If your antenna isn't sensitively tuned, you're likely to lose the data in the noise.

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Most of the time, we are gathering data from the world through the five senses. With the information that's being transmitted on higher frequencies, we are channeling energetic material that can't be physically grasped.

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How do we pick up on a signal that can neither be heard nor be defined? The answer is not to look for it. Nor do we attempt to predict or analyze our way into it. Instead, we create an open space that allows it. A space so free of the normal overpacked condition of our minds that it functions as a vacuum.

p.8

Most super-talented and/or ambitious people want to be the front man; few play the consigliere role well, or even see the under-sung opportunities it offers. In other words, there's less competition and significant opportunity to be had as an all-star right-hand man.

The Startup of You (Revised and Updated)
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