Project Management

A good life doesn’t ask you to be good at everything.

It asks you to find the small circle where you have unusual leverage, and to be peacefully average at most of the rest.

It’s like walking around with a metal detector over your own life, waiting for those little “beeps” of intensity.

“When momentum is on your side, people focus on your strengths and forgive your weaknesses. When the momentum stops, they scrutinize the whole thing.” – Packy McCormick

“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” - Marcus Aurelius

Another reason why persistence is so important is because the greatest ambitions often mean nothing if you try to cash in midway. If Columbus had turned his boats around halfway through the Atlantic, he wouldn’t have half a day named after him — he’d be forgotten by history. Though his journey required skillful sailing, his decisive edge was

Henry Ford said:

"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."

Y Combinator disagrees:

“Talk to your users.”