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How to Be Great? Just Be Good, Repeatably
Greatness is incompatible with optimizing in the short term. To achieve greatness requires a long view.
Kevin Kelly • Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier
world-class is a process, not an event.
Robin Sharma • The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life.
“The most popular podcasts aren’t uniquely different, they’re just best in craft. They’re just doing the same thing that everyone else is doing but at a much higher level. I think that’s the same as newsletters, I think that’s the same thing as everything else.... you don’t need to be completely different, you just need to be good at what you’re do... See more
Louis Grenier Case Study | Liam Curley
So there's basically two pieces of advice I would give. One is collect stepping stones and honor interestingness... The second piece of advice is the more visionary angle, which is to recognize stepping stones when they snap into view for the first time.
Patrick O'Shaughnessy • Greatness Without Goals
By having a blockbuster strategy where you invest time in research and deliberate practice, each article makes you smarter. It also makes you a better writer. So, even if your initial article doesn’t take off, your future ones have a higher chance of blowing up.