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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

FIRST BOOK REVIEW!!! Ignore Everybody by Hugh MacLeod

I'm so excited, it's my first book review! Ever! And it's in my blog, that's the best part. Okay, so enough of me and my flabbergasting, down to buisness. So I recently read and ordered the book, "Ignore Everybody and 39 other keys to creativity" by Hugh MacLeod (pronounced Mc Cloud) and it's about everything, life, business, but mostly creativity. But me being only sixteen, and probably the youngest person that actually bought and read the book, I can't really relate to the business part. And, it has a lot of cuss words in it and for some odd reason, said the word sex a lot.
Hugh is an inspiration. (for me) He talked about being poor and living in New York, young and hopeless, then one day he just started drawing cartoons on business cards. And he did actually put some in the book, and some of them are funny, and some just basically gives you good advice, that just so brilliant that it's unbeilevabe. I wrote a blog about this earlier, but I can't remember what the blog's called, but it was from my favorite "cartoon" in the book. And it said, "What a funny coincidence, me and God hate the same people" And I explain why I love about it in my blog. But anyways, I found a couple off Google, and I put a few cartoons of the wonderful genius of Hugh, down below the blog.
I would like to tell you three of my favorite messages in the book. One of them goes; "don't stand out in the crowd, avoid crowds altogether." This one, I really like, because it goes on, "Your plan for getting your work out there has to be as original as the actual work, perhaps even more so. The work has to create a totally new market. There's no point trying to do the same thing as 250.000 other young hopefuls, waiting for a miracle. All existing business modles are wrong. Find a new one." of corse, I would interpret it to life, since I don't really understand businesses and stuff.
And then there's another, "You were born on this Earth with a little personal Mount Everest, it was put here for you to climb" I like this quote because it tells you to live to the very highest, as far as you can go.
And the my most favorite was probably about start blogging. But he also mentions that if you have other plans besides blogging, try poasting it on the internet, and hope that someone that could help you acheive that goal will notice. Of course, have a job and not just realize on that, but you get the point.
Okay, so now I'm going to place Hugh's comics, and I'm going to say goodbye to you, my friend.

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