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How do you get what you want in life? Hard work, and lots of patience.

Music and links from this episode

1. Golem by Pas Dans Le Cul Aujourd'Hui
2. Dub Steps by Dub Terminator
3. Octopussy by Juanitos

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1. INTRO
2. When Stephen HawkingStephen h began studying physics, he was rubbish at it
3. When Louis Hamilton first started driving, he couldn’t even start the car
4. When Robert De Niro started acting, he couldn’t even land a job in a commercial
5. By default, when you start something, you’re rubbish at it
6. Now, collectively, they’re world renowned physicists, multi million pound racing drivers and some of the best actors of all time
7. You want to know why?
8. Because they had patience
9. This is AADA, and I’m Craig Burgess
10. PLAY MID SONG
11. I still vividly remember the first ever piece of design work I made
12. It was in the first few weeks of official design education
13. And I designed a website for William Wallace
14. It was terrible
15. I mean, absolutely terrible
16. It’d offend you if you saw it, seriously
17. In week 1 of a 2 year course, I was a terrible designer
18. But I had the passion and the willingness to become better at being a designer
19. So I put in the work
20. And started designing everything and anything
21. I made up projects
22. I designed fake logos for fake companies
23. I started projects where I designed stuff for fun
24. All of this on top of the work I had to do for my design course
25. It meant I rapidly became a better designer
26. I still wasn’t an amazing one, by any means
27. I was still a design student after all
28. But I knew that if I followed the process
29. And continued to make new design work
30. And continued to keep putting in the work
31. I’d automatically become better
32. I knew this because I had patience
33. Gary Vaynerchuk says lots of good things about patience too
34. I’ll let him tell it for you
35. PLAY GARY VEE CLIP
36. Because of the internet, we expect results fast
37. Because everything can be downloaded, purchased instantly or delivered the next day
38. We expect everything to be so easy to acquire
39. But a craft like design doesn’t work like that
40. It’ll never work like that, because design is a craft
41. A craft takes time to learn 
42. It takes patience to learn
43. You have to learn the ins and outs of it
44. And be able to do things backwards and forwards
45. The epiphany I had about this whole patience thing came a few years ago
46. When somebody said to me
47. Even Jimi Hendrix had to learn guitar once
48. Even he used to be rubbish at playing guitar
49. Everybody, no matter how talented they are
50. Has been where you are right now, no matter what level of your craft you’re at
51. If you’re just starting out, everybody has taken that first step at least once in their career
52. Once somebody told me that, I became enlightened
53. It’s something so obvious, but something you just don’t think about
54. We put talented people on pedestals
55. And attribute everything they do to natural talent
56. Or luck
57. Or something else that makes that talented person...