The Long Game Part 2: the missing chapter

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[HELP ME MAKE MORE VIDEO ESSAYS! https://www.patreon.com/AdamWestbrook] All of history's greatest figures achieved success in almost exactly the same way. But rather than celebrating this part of the creative process we ignore it. This missing chapter in the story of success reveals the secret to doing meaningful work. But in the modern world, full of distraction, do we have what it takes to do great things? The second in a three-part series about creativity. WATCH PART ONE: https://vimeo.com/84022735 WATCH PART THREE: https://vimeo.com/151128399 ==== Delve Deeper: The series was part inspired by Mastery by Robert Greene http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B009U1U2IU/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp;=1634&creative;=19450&creativeASIN;=B009U1U2IU&linkCode;=as2&tag;=adammeetsworl-21 You can read more about Leonardo daVinci's difficult years in: "Da Vinci's Ghost: Genius, Obsession and how Leonard Created the World in his Own Image" by Toby Lester http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1439189242/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp;=1634&creative;=19450&creativeASIN;=1439189242&linkCode;=as2&tag;=adammeetsworl-21 This series began life as a couple of essays on Medium Difficult https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/a7f8bdabd67b 47 years to success https://medium.com/the-dept-for-dangerous-ideas/8654ee14e4b2 ==== Released under a Creative Commons Licence 3.0 - Remix & share with non-commercial attribution Credits: All paintings and archive in the Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons & Prelinger Archives The Craig Ferguson Show © CBS Music released under a Creative Commons Licence "Lullaby" by _ghost (https://soundcloud.com/ghost-14) "Hungaria" by Latché Swing (http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/latche_swing_(3) "July" by Marcel Pequel (http://www.last.fm/music/Marcel+Pequel) "One" by Marcel Pequel (http://www.last.fm/music/Marcel+Pequel) "Todo se precipita a tu alrededor deprisa" by Ruido Blanco John Coltrane By Gelderen, Hugo van / Anefo [CC-BY-SA-3.0-nl (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/nl/deed.en)], via Wikimedia Commons John Lennon By Roy Kerwood [CC-BY-2.5 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons Sir Alec Guinness By Allan warren → http://www.allanwarren.com [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons Tim Berners Lee By John S. and James L. Knight Foundation [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Rafael Nadal By Steven Byles from Singapore, Singapore (Rafael Nadal Uploaded by russavia) [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Steve Jobs By Matthew YoheAido2002 at en.wikipedia [CC-BY-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons Bill Gates By Kees de Vos from The Hague, The Netherlands [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Richard Branson By David Shankbone [CC-BY-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Bob Dylan by Chris Hakkens Horse statue By Jenny Poole from London, UK (Skopje horse statue Uploaded by raso_mk) [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Mark Zuckerberg :Credit line on the web (with hyperlink): Guillaume Paumier, CC-BY. One Direction: Fiona McKinlay Miley Cyrus: Mike Schmid Taylor Swift: By Eva Rinaldi from Sydney Australia (Taylor Swift Uploaded by russavia) [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Subtitles: Spanish by Ana Ribera Molinos http://about.me/anaribera Portuguese by Gustavo Silveira Mandarin by Eric Lin https://www.cafewatercolor.com Story Design and Production by Adam Westbrook www.adamwestbrook.co.uk Published by www.delve.tv