Why Emotional Control Is More Valuable Than Intelligence
The best way to control your emotional capital is to fine tune your internal monologue and replace your hunger for approval with a desire to grow.
Sari Azout • Check your Pulse #49
If you can focus hard on something for at least a few hours per day for several years, you will get good at it. The main obstacle to doing so is being a poorly-designed meat machine, beset by anxiety, doubt, frustration, depression, arrogance etc. So I've come to believe that managing those emotions is the main component of being good at anything.