Greatness
exploring the foundations of quality and the currents that fight against mediocrity
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Greatness
Highly competent people go around the world in a state of slight dismay at how sloppy everything is
Sasha Chapinx.comI see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.
Poetry and Ambition
Morale compounds via work: high morale helps you do good work, which increases your morale and helps you do even better work. But this cycle also operates in the other direction: if you're not doing good work, that can demoralize you and make it even harder to. Since it matters so much for this cycle to be running in the right direction, it can be... See more
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
in a world drowning in mediocrity, giving a shit is the most durable competitive advantage
Themundanityofexcellence
academics.hamilton.eduGreatness is mundane
Walter Isaacson on the link between suffering and greatness and those with happy childhoods:
“We grow up with fewer demons but we grow up with less drive. We end being Boswell and not Johnson. We end up being the observer and not the doer. Respect those who are in the arena…”
A few... See more