Motivation
find something that’s under-appreciated, not being addressed, or being overlooked, and get really good at it...If you become the foremost expert at something, you make yourself indispensable.
Billy Oppenheimer • SIX at 6: What You’re Made For, John Lennon’s Tea, The Mundanity of Excellence, A Seminal Event, The Common Denominator, and Bob Knight’s Advice - Billy Oppenheimer
One of the hardest and loneliest battles you’ll have to fight as you work to build the life you want is maintaining unwavering self belief that you will make it despite having *nothing* to show for it over a 2-3 year period before you see “overnight” success. You’ll feel like an imposter telling others what you’re building and who you believe you’l... See more
You just need to be smart enough to understand that your success is more about your courage than your intelligence.
As the French film director Robert Bresson once said, “Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”21 If you don’t try something, it will assuredly never exist. Not your version, anyway. True, not all endeavors will be successful, but even our so-called failures can be valuable teachers.
Ryder Carroll • The Bullet Journal Method
The Cult of Done Manifesto
- There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
- Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
- There is no editing stage.
- Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you’re doing even if you don’t and do it.
- Banish
Thomas Deneuville • The Cult of Done Manifesto - Thomas Deneuville
There’s an audience out there that will appreciate your work. Whether that audience is big or small is anyone’s guess, but if you’re chasing numbers, you might not ever find that audience.
