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On Being Too Good
When Roger Bannister broke the 4:00 barrier, a wave of runners suddenly poured through the hole he had smashed. Before Bannister, a sub four minute mile was unthinkable. After Banister, well, who cares if you ran a 3:59? So did … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Business, Creativity, mastery, Practice, Technique
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Selling Out Your Dream For $140 A Week
You’ve got two job offers: Option 1 is a job at a fantastic company, with great people, doing something you want to be doing. Option 2 is a job at a good company, with good people, doing ok work. But, … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Creativity, Food For Thought, Rationality
Tagged Decision making, Dream Job, Evaluation, Goal, Priorities
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Test Your Way To A Raise
Testing is fundamentally important to increase your odds of success. Yes, you may have been born an athletic freak. You may write a screenplay that strikes the right tone at the right time and is wildly successful. You may come … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Business, Self-Improvement, Testing, Tracking
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Should I Go To Medical School?
A lot of bright young people consider going into medicine. Like any profession, it has its downsides, but, at least to me, it was pretty obvious that those downsides were much bigger than in many other fields. But, not having … Continue reading
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Tagged Doctor, Mecial School, Medicine, Physician, Question
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The World’s Second Most Valuable Skill
Awareness is vital. If you can’t pick up on the things going on around you, you’ll almost certainly never be phenomenal at anything. Curiosity isn’t far behind. You can be aware of everything at all times, but if you’re not … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Creativity, Inspiration, Self-Improvement
Tagged Accomplishment, Dream, Goal, JSK, Perseverance
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On Handling Critics
Anyone who produces art, or voices opinions, or does anything publicly, will have critics. Guaranteed. I wrote a post about frugality that got a tiny bit of attention on the web and was bombarded with insults. Did I care? Well, … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Art, Business, Creativity, Food For Thought, Quotes, Relationships, Self-Improvement
Tagged Advice, Criticism, Ego, Quotes
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Mark Zuckerberg Isn’t Mark Zuckerberg
I can’t say this more succinctly than Seth Godin, so I’ll just copy it here: “Mark Zuckerberg” has become a codeword for the truly gifted exception, the wunderkind freak of nature for whom traditional rules don’t apply. Well, sure, Mark … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Business, Creativity, Inspiration, Quotes, Self-Improvement
Tagged Genius, Mark Zuckerberg, Seth Godin, Work
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Beat Procrastination By Being Self-Centered
If you work any sort of normal job, you’re probably forced to do a lot of stuff you’re not terribly enthusiastic about doing. Paradoxically, this work can often take longer because we tend to lose focus. We stall, we procrastinate, … Continue reading
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Tagged Boring, Job, Procrastination, Productivity, Work
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Your Horsepower Is Irrelevant
An engine can only produce so much horsepower. If you’ve got a 300 horsepower engine, it’ll produce 300 horsepower. Sure, you can expend a lot of effort, bore those cylinders out and up the horsepower 10%, but you’re still in … Continue reading
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Tagged Analogies, Brain, Engine, Horsepower, Racing, Sacrifice, Work Ethic
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How Important Is Boredom?
A thought provoking article by Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, in the Wall Street Journal: If you have a smartphone in your pocket, a game console in the living room, a Kindle in your backpack and an iPad in the kitchen, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Business, Creativity, Quotes, Self-Improvement
Tagged Boredom, Meditation, Reflection
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Selling Technology Sucks: Start With The Goal Instead
How do you sell $10 Billion worth of product a year? One of the things I’ve always found is that you’ve got to start with the customer experience and work backwards for the technologyâ€. You can’t start with the technology and … Continue reading
The Million Dollar Answer
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. – Mark Twain We spend a lot of time and money worrying. We walk around thinking about earthquakes and hurricanes and terrorist … Continue reading
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Tagged Anxiety, Art, Baseball Analogies, Business, Crush It, Future, Insurance, Mark Twain, Plan, Sebastian Marshall, Success, Worry
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Stalin Was Right
One death is a tragedy. One Million is a statistic. This fundamental deficiency in our humanity, as it has been called, is a weird phenomena. Why can we be so emotionally moved by an individual’s story, and yet so unmoved … Continue reading
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Tagged Customer Service, Groups, Humanity, Individual, Quote, Stalin
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Appreciation For Inaptitude
To the Gods: [Thanks] That I wasn’t more talented in rhetoric or poetry, or other areas. If I’d felt that I was making better progress I might never have given them up. – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book 1:17 You hear … Continue reading
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Tagged Advice, Aptitude, Life, Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Plans
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