People judge the average of your achievements, not the cumulative
In this era of fast tech driven growth, where numbers are everything, where startups and upstarts are coming out of every home, where everyone is driving to become a creator or an influencer or even both, its very easy to lose your path, lose your sanity when you're driven by external measures, external scores.
Farnam Street • The Inner Scorecard: How Warren Buffett Mastered Life
But there’s a huge danger here. We are covetous creatures, and grasping at too many things leaves us feeling stressed and inadequate, and constantly wondering whether we’re on the best path. Psychologist Barry Schwartz tells us that a wealth of options has a way of making us less satisfied with our eventual choice. When there are fifty possibilitie... See more
David Cain • Why There’s Never Enough Time
If you do everything the way the average startup does it, you should expect average performance. The problem here is, average performance means that you'll go out of business. The survival rate for startups is way less than fifty percent. So if you're running a startup, you had better be doing something odd. If not, you're in trouble.
Paul Graham • Essays
It is really not the number of things you do, but the efficiency of each separate action that counts. Every act is, in itself, either a success or a failure. Every act is, in itself, either effective or inefficient. Every inefficient act is a failure, and if you spend your life in doing inefficient acts, your whole life will be a failure. The more
... See moreWallace D. Wattles • The Science of Getting Rich
One thing this does is gives a false view of success. Most of what people share is what they want you to see. Skills are advertised, flaws are hidden. Wins are exaggerated, losses are downplayed. Doubt and anxiety are rarely shared on social media. Defeated soldiers and failed CEOs rarely sit for interviews.
Morgan Housel • How People Think
“When researching strategies, emphasize patterns over stories. One person succeeding means nothing. 100 people succeeding is a signal.
When explaining strategies, emphasize stories over patterns. People forget numbers and charts. Everyone remembers a great story.”
When explaining strategies, emphasize stories over patterns. People forget numbers and charts. Everyone remembers a great story.”