DAN KOE (@thedankoe)
It’s taken me a while to warm up to the idea that thinking is working, and that what is actually work can at first look lazy. I love Naval [Ravikant’s tweet], “Be too busy to do coffee while keeping an uncluttered calendar.” More often than not, spending two hours thinking about a problem is a much better use of my time than taking two calls... See more
Sari Azout • Sari Azout on Building Emotional Capital
Everyone who wins is boring.
The person who is big and muscular is boring. Goes to the gym every day, eats simple food, takes his substances, sleeps, has a routine.
The guy who is rich as fuck sits at his laptop and works for many hours in a row, focused on what he has to do.... See more
Joe Lamptonx.comShane Parrish (Farnam Street) on different types of hard work (each of these requires a different type of “hard work”):
1. Outthinking (a better strategy, a shortcut)
2. Pure Effort (working longer, intensity)
3. Opportunistic (positioning yourself to take advantage of change)
4. Consistency (doing average things for longer)
5. Focus (saying no to
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