Claudiu

From what I have observed, the truth of the matter is: People who work very hard and apply themselves and don’t give up and take responsibility for the outcomes on a long enough time scale, end up succeeding in whatever they’re focused on. And every success case knows this.

Richard Feynman used to say that he wasn’t a genius. He was just a boy who... See more

Your job will not always be what you want to do. Some of your jobs will be unpleasant. Some will be actively miserable. This is not relevant. You do your job anyway because that is what we do. Whatever your job is, you will work like a dray horse. Many things in life will be out of your control. Your effort level is not one of those things.

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Consistency compounds. A sustainable habit you maintain for 12 months will always outperform an intense effort you abandon after six weeks.

Maximum leverage is the result of commitment, of daily persistence, of gradual and insane and apparently useless effort over time.

Because this idea that the Internet’s gonna become incredibly democratic? I mean, if you’ve spent any time on the Web, you know that it’s not gonna be, because that’s completely overwhelming. There are four trillion bits coming at you, 99 percent of them are shit, and it’s too much work to do triage to decide.

So, it’s very clearly, very soon... See more