Ryan Holiday is only 33 years old and has already written a bunch of bestselling books and had some mighty impressive career success.
He recently wrote about “the canvas strategy,” calling it the best career advice he’s ever received.
It’s supposedly the same strategy that Bill Belichick 🏈 Leonardo da Vinci 🎨 and Benjamin Franklin 🇺🇸 used to great effect.
In brief, it involves…
attaching yourself to people and organizations who are already successful and subsuming your identity into theirs, moving both forward simultaneously. It’s certainly more glamorous to pursue your own glory — but hardly as effective. First, you need to learn and pay your dues.
This is something I wish I’d done more of starting out. I was far too eager to do my own thing instead of seeking out experts and mentors to work with and learn from
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