Greatness
exploring the foundations of quality and the currents that fight against mediocrity
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Greatness
Themundanityofexcellence
academics.hamilton.eduGreatness is mundane
When you make something, when you improve something, when you deliver something, when you add some new thing or service to the lives of strangers, making them happier, or healthier, or safer, or better, and when you do it all crisply and efficiently, smartly, the way everything should be done but so seldom is—you’re participating more fully in the... See more
Phil Knight • Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
Reaching 95%-ile isn't very impressive because it's not that hard to do. I think this is one of my most ridiculable ideas. It doesn't help that, when stated nakedly, that sounds elitist. But I think it's just the opposite: most people can become (relatively) good at most things.
Atul Gawande • 95%-Ile Isn't That Good
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
Greatness Without Goals
joincolossus.comHow Rick Rubin and Kanye West make groundbreaking creative work.
theageofideas.com
The best reason to not cut corners:
If you didn't get the response you were hoping for, how can you know if it was because your idea was bad vs. you cut corners?
Julie Zhuox.comGreat artists don’t study art history to figure out what art to create.
Great founders don’t analyze the market to figure out what product to build.
Navaltwitter.com