Greatness
exploring the foundations of quality and the currents that fight against mediocrity
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Greatness
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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 goodsari added 2y ago
Don't focus on metrics. Just focus on making the best videos possible and the metrics will be taken care of.
from MrBeast: Future of YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram | Lex Fridman Podcast #351 by Lex Fridman
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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 common denominator in how we approach our… Show moreAlara added 1y ago
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 w
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Low expectations are a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we aim high, we’ll get better results.
from Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang
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- Taste requires originality. It invokes an aspirational authenticity. Writer George Saunders calls this “achieving the iconic space,” and it’s what he’s after when he meets his creative writing students. “They arrive already wonderful. What we try to do over the next three years is help them achieve what I call their “iconic space” — the place from ... See more
from Notes on “Taste” by are.na
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