Laurence Chen
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What is the pain you want to sustain?
–Mark Manson
i.e., Do you want the reward but not the struggle? Want the results but not the process of getting them? What values are worth the effort?
J. Greenleaf Whittier:
For all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: it might have been!
Do, or do not. There is no failure, only feedback. –Yoda Robert Allen
Ready Fire Aim and
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. – Seneca
If you do everything I ask, you get a C.
If you want a better grade, do more.
–Hilary’s Teacher
If you don’t have time to clean up, you don’t have time to cook
Professionals understand that the project is the whole project, not simply the fun or urgent or interesting part of the work.
There are countless productive shortcuts along the way. But not finishing the project isn’t one of them.
Professionals understand that the project is the whole project, not simply the fun or urgent or interesting part of the work.
There are countless productive shortcuts along the way. But not finishing the project isn’t one of them.
If you don’t have time to clean up, you don’t have time to cook
When you make something, when you improve something, when you deliver something, when you add some new thing or service to the lives of strangers, making them happier, or healthier, or safer, or better, and when you do it all crisply and efficiently, smartly, the way everything should be done but so seldom is—you’re participating more fully in the
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Drive your dopamine dream; don’t be driven. Steer now. –Laurence Chen