🔴 The Bleeding Edge Plus #5: Unconventional Success; Starship; Burnout and Distraction; Life, Death, Plants; DJ Sets

I'm bringing back the buffet for this edition of The Bleeding Edge Plus.

In case you forgot, at this buffet, you get a list of useful things from all across the internet.

Topics include books, AI, tech, creator tips, energy, optimism, career growth, history, and just about anything else I find interesting.

At this buffet, there’s something for everyone.

The buffet is for paid subscribers only. Sorry, gotta keep the lights on around here.

Free subscribers get a short preview of the full edition.

The buffet is broken down into three parts:

Main course: Things you should know, which take the most time to consume.

Appetizers: Bite-sized servings of “I think you’ll find this helpful”

Desserts: Short and sweet thoughts & tools.

NEW in this month’s edition, quotes, music & sparks.

Quotes: Favorite quotes of the month

Music: Favorite DJ sets and music mixes of the month.

Sparks: Unfinished thought starters for you to explore.

Let’s dive in!

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🧑‍🍳 Main Course

Here are the main dishes for this edition.

1. Take The Third Door

Have you ever looked at someone and thought “I admire how they do everything just like everyone else”?

You’ve probably never said that.

The traditional path is not the reason you look up to someone.

The reason you look up to someone is because they did something different. They dedicated more time to honing their craft than anyone you know of. They veered from the norm and did something extraordinary.

Extra-ordinary.

Extra, meaning outside of. They did something outside of the ordinary.

The Third Door: The Mindset of Success by Alex Banayan is how I learned about the idea of the third door.

On the book’s website, Alex says:

Life, business, success… it’s just like a nightclub.

There are always three ways in.

There’s the First Door: the main entrance, where 99 percent of people wait in line, hoping to get in.

The Second Door: the VIP entrance, where the billionaires and celebrities slip through.

But what no one tells you is that there is always, always… the Third Door. It’s the entrance where you have to jump out of line, run down the alley, bang on the door a hundred times, crack open the window, sneak through the kitchen—there’s always a way.

Whether it’s how Bill Gates sold his first piece of software or how Steven Spielberg became the youngest studio director in Hollywood history, they all took the Third Door.