The first step of any meaningful pursuit is to severely underestimate its difficulty.
The first step of any meaningful pursuit is to severely underestimate its difficulty.
The first step towards being “high agency” is always the same. You cannot take effective action towards bending the world to your desire until you know, in detail, what it is that you desire.
Take, for example, the ambition to “make your venture-backed startup profitable”: to develop, market, and distribute a product or service that’s never existed before, in a form that’s valuable and accessible enough for large numbers of people to want to pay you for it, in sufficient quantity that your revenue consistently exceeds your costs.
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Gena Gorlin • The Psychological Needs of the Extremely Ambitious
Surprising fact: To create something truly great you have to repeat a small number of powerful words over and over again
When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thickskinned, to learn that not every project will survive.
jamesclear.com • “Make Good Art” by Neil Gaiman
The first lessons were about the practical aspects of pursuing a quest. If you want to achieve the unimaginable, you start by imagining it. Before beginning, take the time to count the cost. Understanding exactly what you need to do, and then finding a way to do it, makes a quest much more feasible.