Had to post this
https://twitter.com/UnityCogent/status/550042348420595712/photo/1
Point is to just get started!
…and finish of course.
Cheers
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Lol so true. So many times when I first started developing when I would think there is no way I can do this. Id come across a problem that seemed too hard to wrap my head around. But I’d keep pushing and little by little something started taking shape.
Now whenever I face those problems I don’t even doubt for one second I can’t do it. I look at my past obstacles and think how simple they all seem now, yet so impossible at that time. Before I know it I’ve done it once again. Even if it takes days or weeks of trying the same things over and over while pulling my hair out. Like many things in life it’s about how bad you want it and how far you are willing to go. I will never stop until I’ve accomplished my goals.
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Duly noted. 
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What % is “I think I can, I think I can…”… is that like 112%?
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Should be huh? 
Also, define success.
Success = total annihilation of all your enemies.
–Eric
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Division by zero one can create a lot of success if your a politician or some such sort.
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What if I create an alliance of all your defeated enemies and create an elaborate scheme to control the world using fear, xenophobia and propoganda?
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…That might actually be easier been creating a really really successful runaway smash hit game in the year 2015.
Perspective, man.
Well yes since the scheme is already in place, after all what is the instinct to avoid pain and harm but individual fear, xenophobia, and propaganda? We all seem to seek to bend the air that surrounds us to suit us but we should do so as harmlessly and painlessly for all involved as possible. Meanwhile in such a preexisting environment the run away smash hit game of 2015 doesn’t exist yet, although there will be plenty of games called that you can bet they probably ain’t. If we’re talking Beanie Baby popular then we can talk.
You can minimize a lot of the effect of the fear and xenophobia on yourself by the way mostly by avoiding the mass media and their colleagues in finger wagging, the politicians. Note their fingers mostly only wag if there is money or votes in it so be careful of motivation.
Umm… yeah, there’s a few massive schemes out there. But there’s like 1,000 games released per day.
It’s just competition screwing with supply and demand. In fact at this point I think you’d have better luck making money doing anything except games, including selling Tupperware.
Or creating an evil empire.
It’s a lot like those dudes selling their own recorded CD’s on the street. It’s a side hustle. Everybody wants a cut, but you can’t take a piece of the big guys game or they will come after you with everything they got. So you gotta stick to the corners where sales are low selling inferior product. Everybody dreams of being Scarface or Heisenberg.
Only instead of most people ending up in jail (for the same trumped up $#!7) they end up in their parents basement. :B
Dream of being Scarface? Never even was interested in watching the movie which is how I heard of him. Heisenberg I’ve never heard of.
I still have a CD I bought in Manhattan for $5 but I still haven’t listened to it. It’s rap and rap is really, really overexposed as some game genres nowadays.
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Positive thinking is the key. Repeat the following:
I can do it. I will do it. I can do it. I will do it. I can do it. I will do it. I can do it. I will do it.
Really that is almost the case in my head as I try and concentrate and it’s not really conducive to doing anything a all. 
I’m partial to “screw it, let’s do it”, myself. From Sir Richard Branson, one of my business heroes.
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And that’s why he’s always nearly going bankrupt.
He made a billion pounds signing up loads of artists to his Virgin label. Then he squandered all his money on vanity projects like Virgin Airways and this Virgin galactic. The other “virgin” companies are other people’s companies that he’s leased the Virgin brand to. That’s his one good idea. He’s a master at spin. Don’t believe his hype.
Another of his quotes: “Easiest way to make a million pounds is start with a billion then start an airline.”
But at least he has fun doing it. Some of us enjoy the challenge and adventure of entrepreneurship, regardless of the inevitable waves of change (riches to poverty and back again). In fact, for a lot of people (myself included), it’s those waves that make it all worth it. Not everyone is in business to sit still on their one idea that “worked” and leave it at that, content that the money will always be flowing in. Different strokes, different folks.
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I think most people have learned from BlackBerry by now. When will people stop shaming them?
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