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Occasionally I go through a patch where I am unbelievably fortunate and end up reading a bunch of really good things. This was one of those times.

( What I've been reading lately )

Words that haunt me

I read this weeks ago, and can't stop thinking about it.

What I realised with my own career as a journalist is that no one is going to knight you and dub you Foreign Correspondent. The chance of you doing something on a mainstream level is one in a million. No one is going to give you a passport and a flack jacket and say “GO – we trust in your genius!” You kind of have to do it yourself.

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If something interests you become an expert in your own right, or to the best of your ability. Go there, learn about it, and don’t wait for anybody else to send you. You can do it. It doesn’t have to be abroad, it can be inside your own community. It doesn’t mean you’re going to be successful necessarily, but at least if you are successful you’ve done it on your own terms.

-From an interview with Joe Sacco