Chubmeister 5000
- if you’re strong enough to resist against it, you’re certainly strong enough to surrender to it
- Making things is hard and I feel like that’s the most useful thing to say about it.
from Making Things Is Hard by Ava
- Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather taking action despite the fear.
from Advice to Young People, the Lies I Tell Myself¶ by Jason Liu
- Success comes to individuals who are working hard untiringly and who are making steady progress by putting in more constant effort compared to others.
from Chapter 41 - Bloomberg by Bloomberg, Revised and Updated
- I love that loop. Write, revise, write, revise. It’s like doing reps in a gym. You can’t expect that 10 pull-ups will add any discernible new muscle. But 30 pull-ups, across three sets, done thrice a week, for a year? Yeah, you’re going to notice the cumulative results of that.
from Commit to competence in this coming year
- On the train ride I repeated this line to myself, your allocation of effort determines your reality . Mastery requires effort sustained over time. The ability to make practice sacred through repetition. It’s the gardener, philosopher, writer, financier, artist, entrepreneur. Our roads, architecture, movies, books, music, everything beautiful in thi... See more
from highly concentrated effort by Nix 🕊
The antidote to envy is one's own work. Always one's own work. Not the thinking about it. Not the assessing of it. But the doing of it… [T]he work itself. It drives the spooks away.
-Bonnie Friedman
