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You will be unappreciated


It seems there is almost an inverse relationship to your long term success and the amount of recognition you receive early on in your career. There’s a great quote by Ayn Rand in The Fountainhead that says this better than any poem I could make:

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals differed, but they all had this in common: that the step was first, the road new, the vision unborrowed, and the response they received — hatred. The great creators — the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors — stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed. Every great new invention was denounced. The first motor was considered foolish. The airplane was considered impossible. The power loom was considered vicious. Anesthesia was considered sinful. But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered and they paid. But they won.

Just do your work. Do it well.

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Derek Magill has been the Director of Marketing at Praxis and has worked with companies like Voice and Exit, Colliers International, The Objective Standard, and FEE.

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