RP

I heard an amazing thing yesterday. The Irish poet David Whyte was quoting somebody else when he said: the antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest. It’s wholeheartedness.

Sometimes when you do things that lie on the periphery of your will, you stay there, pile up the angst, exhaustion, the despair.

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“If your choice enters into it, then taste is involved—bad taste, good taste, uninteresting taste.”

What I Wish Someone Had Told Me

1. Optimism, obsession, self-belief, raw horsepower and personal connections are how things get started.


2. Cohesive teams, the right combination of calmness and urgency, and unreasonable commitment are how things get finished. Long-term orientation is in short supply; try not to worry about what people think in the short

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