Pressure

“Success is the only revenge. As you expand, they shrink into irrelevance. As you get louder, no one can hear them. You don’t beat them... you cast a shadow so big that no one can see them to begin with.”

Parents think they can hand children permanent confidence—like a gift—by praising their brains and talent. It doesn’t work, and in fact has the opposite effect. It makes children doubt themselves as soon as anything is hard or anything goes wrong. If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children t... See more

Rushing has a built-in excuse. Rushing pushes us to skip steps or ship junk.

But hurrying acknowledges how precious this moment in time is. It honors our good fortune to be in this place, able to contribute something generous