How to Be Great? Just Be Good, Repeatably

July 2023

If you collected lists of techniques for doing great work in a lot of different fields, what would the intersection look like? I decided to find out by making it.

Partly my goal was to create a guide that could be used by someone working in any field. But I was also curious about the shape of the intersection. And one thing this exercise sh... See more

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Consistency compounds while occasional brilliance fades.

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You don't need more time. You need more focus.

Time isn't the constraint. Your choices are.

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Great outcomes aren't built on great days, but on consistent ones.

You can't just count the days when it's easy. Each day moves you closer to the goal. No day is a hero; no day is a villain.

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Every “overnight success” is the result of years of thankless work. Success comes not from great acts of genius but from doing lots of small things consistently

“Greatness is consistency.

Meditating once is common. Meditating daily is rare.

Exercising today is simple. Training every week is simply remarkable.

Writing one essay rarely matters. Write every day and you're practically a hero.

Unheroic days can make for heroic decades.”