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If you want an average, successful life, it doesn’t take much planning. Just stay out of trouble, go to school, and apply for jobs you might like. But if you want something extraordinary, you have two paths: 1) Become the best at one specific thing. 2) Become very good (top 25%) at two or more things.
Ferriss, Timothy • Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
Piercing question:
“If someone came as a disciple of your life, and lived the way you live for a week, what would be the fruit of that for them?”
—John Eldredge
“This is the optionality mindset in action: the belief that the future belongs to the generalist, the jack-of-all-trades, the eternal dabbler. But it’s a lie. The future doesn’t belong to the generalist. It belongs to the obsessed.“
Little steps add up to something amazing in the long run.
Source: Share Like An Artist by Austin Kleon.
Your entire life can change in one year. Not ten. Not five. Not three. One. One year of focused, daily effort. You’re one year of focus away from people calling you lucky.
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A knife cuts because it has a narrow focus.
—Cleddie Keith
Wild
Ferrari sold 13,700 cars last year. Market cap $90 billion.
Volkswagen sold 9 million cars last year. Market cap $40 billion.
The 3 dead-simple "Work Habits" I track to guarantee progress every single day (without resorting to complex productivity systems or accountability apps): https://t.co/bQWsTKw3NA