from outcome to process
Sometimes the best way to achieve something great is to stop trying to achieve a particular great thing. In other words, greatness is possible if you are willing to stop demanding what that greatness should be.
Joel Lehman • Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective
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"Move toward the next thing, not away from the last thing.
Same direction. Completely different energy."
Same direction. Completely different energy."
3-2-1: On the shortness of life, what mastery requires, and how to overlap the things you love
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Reframing “work” as a process of embodied intention not only inverts the relationship between process and output (and makes us question why that relationship ever seemed hierarchical in the first place) but also forces us to prioritize the things that make process more enjoyable, true, delightful and meaningful.
Rebecca • [BIFFS vol. 2] Work as trace
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When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go to where we’ve already been. If process drives outcome we may not know where we’re going, but we will know we want to be there.
Bruce Mau • BRUCE MAU'S MASSIVE CHANGE NETWORK
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Embed future in today. Action bias in here and now. And weave time to unleash compounding. Small steady steps in right direction
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Often, the key to succeeding at something big is to break it into its tiniest pieces and focus on how to succeed at just one piece.
Tim Urban • How to Pick Your Life Partner - Part 2
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Almost no prerequisite to any major invention was invented with that invention in mind.
Joel Lehman • Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective
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To arrive somewhere remarkable we must be willing to hold many paths open without knowing where they might lead.
Joel Lehman • Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective
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God, grant me the serenity to
Accept the things I cannot change
Courage to change the things I can
And wisdom to know the difference
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