This guy was Russ’ best friend in high school.
His name is Bugus.
When they graduated high school, they created a mastermind group called DIEMON.
Do It Everyday Music Or Nothing
This eventually became their record label.
Russ writes in his book:
Upon the creation of DIEMON, we took on new members. Some of the guys put out a few songs; some of them put out one project; and some of them didn’t even get to that point. In every case when they didn’t blow up instantly, they stopped. They were too attached to the idea of the ‘when’.
We would hype them up because we genuinely thought they were amazing, but they didn’t have that core belief that kept them working, no matter how much we believed in them. Picture self-belief as a cup. My cup, along with Bugus’s, was running over. We had enough to spare. We would try to pour our belief into them before realizing our attempts were futile.
THEIR CUPS HAD HOLES IN THEM.
If you love the points but don’t love playing the game, you’ll quit.
Not getting ‘it’ in a quick timeframe will stop most people.
If you did love the game but get mixed up and programmed to love the points more, you’ll end up like I did after my 2 years coaching junior hockey.
Depressed and miserable.
Loving the points is a finite game with means to an end.
Loving the game is infinite. You forget the ‘when’ because you’re too in love with playing the game.
If it feels like ‘work’, it isn’t going to work.
Play is something you can do all day…
Reminder, that game is different for everybody.
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