Greatness
exploring the foundations of quality and the currents that fight against mediocrity
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Greatness
be extremely critical of all your work until it’s great. it’s not about you personally, it’s about how people feel and receive the work
H/t patrick oshag
Human scale institutions strive for optimum scale. Not mega scale. The point at which maximum quality can be attained. Their purpose is not to maximize profitability. It is to maximize well-being. Whose? Everyone’s.
umair haque • Why We Need to Build Human-Scale Organizations
One of the best ideas I learned from Kobe Bryant:
“Don’t copy the what. Copy the how”
Kobe would study greatness in any domain. Sports, music, business, art, whatever.
This is why:
“No matter what discipline you are in, there’s a... See more
A great lil story from the book Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland:
The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality.
His procedure was
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