đź’Ą Attaining Excellence with Airbnb, Stanley Kubrick, Maya Angelou, and more
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đź’Ą Attaining Excellence with Airbnb, Stanley Kubrick, Maya Angelou, and more
“My whole life has been spent trying to teach people that intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out in people resources they didn’t know they had.”
— Edwin Land
The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static, safe mediocrity. Usually, growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety.
Josh Waitzkin • The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance
Take, for example, the ambition to “make your venture-backed startup profitable”: to develop, market, and distribute a product or service that’s never existed before, in a form that’s valuable and accessible enough for large numbers of people to want to pay you for it, in sufficient quantity that your revenue consistently exceeds your costs.
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