Tag Archives: Ayn Rand

How to Decide What You Should Do With Your Life

February 4, 2010 – 8:15 am

“What should I do with my life?”
This is a question I have asked myself for many years, and I know I’m not the only one. I’ve longed for an answer. Sometimes I felt as though there was no answer. Or that the answer would evolve over time. Or that I would discover it a few [...]

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A Reminder to Keep Trying

September 21, 2009 – 5:50 pm

On the wall near my desk, I keep a list of the thirteen publishers who rejected Ayn Rand’s masterpiece The Fountainhead. They are:

Macmillan
Knopf
Doubleday
Simon & Schuster
Paramount
Little, Brown
Duell
Sloan & Pearce
Dutton
Dodd Mead
Lippincott
Reynal & Hitchcock
Random House

This is a great source of inspiration to me. Think about it: Ayn Rand escaped a totalitarian Russia (which eventually killed her parents) and [...]

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