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... See moreFrom Genesis, man enters not a paradise without labor but a world of intentional creation. The LORD God places man in the Garden of Eden "to dress it and to keep it" (Genesis 2:15) establishing labor not as punishment but as sacred vocation. This original calling invites us to co-create the Kingdom, tending and developing the world with intention
... See moreEvery breakthrough — every invention, every industry, every new frontier — began with a handful of extraordinary individuals free to take extraordinary risks. Washington led men into battle at 22. Carnegie was building his steel empire by 30. Meriwether Lewis charted the American West in his twenties. Sam Colt patented the revolver at 22. Palmer
... See moreAs our ability to concentrate has collapsed, I’ve become more and more convinced that it is the superpower we should long for. Sustained focus is the engine that connects dots and builds things. To concentrate with the intensity of a chess grandmaster on the object of your choosing is to find out what you are capable of—what you are capable of
This breed of company will never spring from the mind of a committee; it would never have been permitted to endure in its current form, with thousands of employees organizing themselves around problems at hand, if we had submitted to the conventional managerial model in American corporate life.
if you don’t have any public work or public proof then congratulations, you are whatever the hive mind imagines you to be.
... See moreTo keep it low risk, I reached out to the only other person I knew running a ghostwriting business.
They gave me a freelance role at their company. So I started getting the reps in. At the same time, I also committed to the craft of writing:
Minimum of 500 words per day (hit this for 660 days in a row)
30-minutes of daily copywork (hand-copying great
Figure out what is your core required achievement at this point in time — writing, building a data set, whatever — and do it first thing in the day no matter what.
... See moreMost guys will live and die without ever doing anything truly remarkable. They'll work jobs they tolerate, take vacations to places everyone's been, and fill their free time with Netflix and social media.
Look at the lives of men who defined what it means to be truly interesting:
Roosevelt hunted big game in Africa, survived being shot during a