Commitment
Musings on committing and continually showing up to a place, a profession, or a person in an age of endless opportunities + persevering - even and especially when it's hard.
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Commitment
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Concentrate your resources on a small number of high-conviction bets
Woody Allen said “80% of success is showing up.” To which @howes28 added, “and the other 20% is refusing to leave.”
I think about that a lot when companies run into tough times. So much of long term company success is built on the team simply persisting.
Eric Vishriatwitter.commy little life of optionality—my malleable, absorbent dunnage which lessens the shock of surprises, avoids pain and prevents breakage. No commitments, nobody counting on me, no one to disappoint and no one to disappoint me. Still, if life becomes intolerable—a measure which is lowered with each available treatment, each magical distraction—I have... See more
Pain & Surprise
beautifully strung together words on the curse of optionality and how staying put is progress.
our ability to bind our future selves to a future is what makes us agentic, rather than just moment-to-moment responders. Maybe the total inability to commit is a deeper kind of temporal fragmentation—the self splintering into a thousand disconnected moments instead of flowing through time as a continuous “I”. It’s fascinating to turn this idea... See more
Sindhu Shivaprasad • commitment is an act of agency
Commitments become easier when you realize that, after enough wandering, the grass is unlikely to be greener, pursuing novelty has diminishing returns, and continuous optimizing comes at the cost of compounding—and nearly everything great compounds
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