One thing on my "to-do" list this year, is to find the bootleg album of a dozen or so sessions of the Beatles revising "Strawberry Fields Forever". Why? It's not because I am a fan of the beatles. It is because the album is a musical score on how to obtain perfection. In the biography of Steve Jobs, which is an amazing read by the way, Steve Jobs explains that as you listen to each session and each version of Strawberry Fields Forever, you begin to see the small changes, progression, and refining process that the beatles use to create final master pieces that lives on forever.
Just reading about this album has helped me realize that the beatles (although they did create a ridiculous amount of #1 hits) did not come up with each masterpiece out of thin air. They were humans just like us that wanted to deliver timeless songs. All they had was an idea of what they wanted, some creativity, and then spent countless hours refining the song to as close to perfection as possible.
GoNextWorld has been refining our product, our business, and ourselves for years. And we believe that sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is.
Perfection isn't instant (nothing worth while is). But with time, hard work, and desire, this refining process can be used to get damn near close to it. Beatles used it on their songs. Steve Jobs used it at Apple. We are using it at GoNextWorld.
I'm currently reading Steve's bio and am on the same hunt as you! Did you find it?
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