RP

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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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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Society which scorns excellence in plumbing because it’s a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy.

Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

~ John W. Gardner,