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Effort
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work all the way to the edge of impossible.
Seth Godin • The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?
care enough to build the best job you ever had,
Seth Godin • The Song of Significance
“It’s far better when doing good work is sufficient. In other words, the less attached we are to outcomes the better. When fulfilling our own standards is what fills us with pride and self-respect. When the effort—not the results, good or bad—is enough.”16 RYAN HOLIDAY
Paul Millerd • Good Work : Reclaiming Your Inner Ambition
As we just saw, such terms of effort are extremely important. Terms like “artisanal,” “handcrafted,” “fair trade,” and “organic” are used not only to signify creativity, uniqueness, political views, and health, but also to signal extra effort. Effort terms tell us that a lot of labor and resources went into a product and implicitly suggest that the
... See moreDan Ariely • Dollars and Sense
Given any project, always aim no higher than the quality target, and always strive for minimum expenditure of effort. It doesn't matter whether you're writing a term paper, pulling a person out of a burning house, or creating a galaxy-spanning human civilization — the goal is always to achieve some quality target with minimum effort.
mindingourway.com • Half-Assing It With Everything You've Got
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We need to be careful to not optimize everything to be efficient. Efficiency is for robots, humans are inefficient. “Every single thing that we really value as humans is terribly inefficient” Science, discovery, art, adventure are all inefficient
David Perell • Kevin Kelly: Seeing the Future
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