Sublime

With the old masters, my goal was to do what they did. When I began “imagining” the moves of those two basketball players I so greatly admired on that early pre-college tour I took to Canada, my goal was never to reproduce what they did—but to counter their moves.

tell him about the goal, and he draws up a battle plan. First, he designs a course of study. He sets about collecting a master list of phone numbers and addresses for the world’s most acclaimed sports doctors and nutritionists, and reaches out to all of them, turns them into his private consultants. He huddles with experts at the U.S. Olympic Train

creativity. The key is to maintain both in a hub-and-spoke-style arrangement: Expose yourself to ideas in hubs on a regular basis, but maintain a spoke in which to work deeply on what you encounter.

In effect, I’m calling the bet, but I don’t raise. I simply stay in the hand to see what will happen. Three dollars a word, comes the next email. Done. I’ve won the hand and extracted more value than I ever thought I could from it. Thank you, Aggressive Idiot Asshole; you have taught me well.

New belief: Genius is not born; it’s made through deep practice.

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He knew the potential cost—having beaten many of his most awesome opponents simply by disrupting their flow or throwing them off-balance, by arriving late, by acting strangely, by choosing, in one case, to fight with a long wooden oar instead of a sword to the complete befuddlement of the warrior trying to kill him.

"When you didn't know or when you didn't want to invest the time in finding out?" "Well, I certainly wouldn't want to invest five years finding out." "And in such a situation who should you ask?" Richard smiled, "I would ask an inspired work-in- progress who had a passion about such a thing as fly fishing." &