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1. This Minus Five by Captive Portal
2. Day Bird by Broke for Free
3. Exotic2 by Andrew Pekler
4. Tonight, By The Moonlight by James Pants

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1. INTRO
2. I love shortcuts
3. All kinds of shortcuts actually
4. I love keyboard shortcuts, because they speed things up when I’m working
5. I love productivity shortcuts, that make me more efficient
6. I even love shortcuts in Mario Kart, because they make sure I don’t come last
7. Sometimes though, shortcuts just don’t work
8. Sometimes, you’ve just got to knuckle down
9. And just work hard
10. This is AADA, and I’m Craig Burgess
11. PLAY MID SONG
12. If there’s something I see more and more of as I get older
13. And I guess you could say more experienced
14. Is that people become more entitled
15. Because anybody can get a YouTube channel or a blog set up in 5 minutes
16. They expect the results to come equally as quickly
17. Because when we forget something or don’t know something
18. And we can just google for any answer in 5 seconds flat
19. People expect everything else to be as easy to achieve
20. People like to talk about overnight success
21. As if that’s an excuse for the fact that somebody has achieved something
22. There’s no such thing as an overnight success
23. It’s a lie
24. The only way an overnight success is achieved
25. Is through hard work, and years of it
26. No matter how old somebody might be
27. Take a talented 17 year old footballer for example who’s just broken into the professional leagues
28. That 17 year old kid has been playing football their life
29. Probably not far enough since they started walking
30. What’s overnight about that success?
31. There’s a thing that occurs over and over when people talk about success
32. And it doesn’t even matter what kind of definition of it you have
33. This thing comes up over and over
34. And it’s working hard
35. Nothing worth achieving comes without hard work
36. Otherwise everybody would be doing it
37. The same couldn’t be more true of being a designer
38. There’s so many designers out there now
39. You just need a computer and a copy of Photoshop and you can call yourself a designer
40. There’s no regulation
41. Increasingly people are turning away from traditional design education too
42. Which I don’t agree with by the way
43. So the only differentiator
44. In a stupidly crowded market
45. Is your work
46. And the only way to make your work get better
47. And stand out from anybody else's
48. Is to do lots of it, and work hard
49. The design world is no different from many other industries these days
50. And I predict with the rise of the internet, competition for any job will only get bigger
51. And the only way to make sure you’re the best is to work harder thane everybody else
52. Designers have to know so many things these days
53. And have to be good at so many different crafts
54. That the only way to get good at them all is to...