Greatness
exploring the foundations of quality and the currents that fight against mediocrity
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Greatness
"It is rarely a mysterious technique that drives us to the top, but rather a profound mastery of what may well be a basic skill set."
—Josh Waitzkin
Mastery of basics, not secret techniques, makes legends.
Look at Roger Gracie's BJJ dominance—leverage and positioning. Jiro... See more
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Rick Rubin on turning Metallica around
It’s always better to think and work backwards from great than it is to work forward from good
Themundanityofexcellence
academics.hamilton.eduGreatness is mundane
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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