Patience is the ultimate competitive advantage

Fast learns, slow remembers. Fast proposes, slow disposes. Fast is discontinuous, slow is continuous. Fast and small instructs slow and big by accrued innovation and by occasional revolution. Slow and big controls small and fast by constraint and constancy. Fast gets all our attention, slow has all the power.

I can't stop thinking about this:

Fast gets all the attention.

Slow has all the power.

If you're feeling everyone around you is moving faster and achieving more while you're being left behind—take a breath. That narrative is bullshit.

The constant pressure to compress what takes decades of work into days is a mirage.

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The challenge is that a focus on speed and a focus on mass are often diametrically opposed. Speed encourages us to think short-term. Mass is a long-term project. And the more we immerse ourselves in the high-speed world, the more we think everything has to happen now. But it rarely does, and if we try, we can steadily reorient our focus from Speed ... See more