1) Do less. Stop dividing your attention.
2) Do it right now. Once you have identified the essential, go fast. Maintain a bias toward action.
3) Do it the right way. Acting quickly doesn’t mean acting carelessly. Get to work right away, but keep working on it until it’s right.
— James Clear https://twitter.com/JamesClear/status/1401979132771291138
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“1) Do less. Stop dividing your attention. 2) Do it right now. Once you have identified the essential, go fast. Maintain a bias toward action. 3) Do it the right way. Acting quickly doesn't mean acting carelessly. Get to work right away, but keep working on it until it's right.”
“Patience is a competitive advantage.
In a surprising number of fields, you can find success if you are simply willing to do the reasonable thing longer than most people.”
— James Clear https://jamesclear.com/3-2-1/june-10-2021?rh_ref=e1cbd323
#mjbNoteToSelf #mjbDoTheWork #Quote #mjbQuote #mjbFocus #mjbPatience .
3 IDEAS FROM ME I. “Patience is a competitive advantage. In a surprising number of fields, you can find success if you are simply willing to do the reasonable thing longer than most people.” II. “Most people don’t want accurate information, they want validating information. Growth requires you to be open to unlearning ideas that […]
If you’ve never committed to anything for at least one decade, you don’t know whether you have any talent.
Potential takes time to flourish, and results don’t come linearly.
— https://twitter.com/orangebook_/status/1396134039371739141
In many cases, the bottleneck to achieving results is simply making the time to do the work.
You’re capable of exercising, but are you making the time?
You’re capable of writing, but are you making the time?
You’re capable of reading, but are you making the time?
— James Clear
#mjbDoTheWork #mjbFocus #mjbNoteToSelf #Quote #mjbQuote #Time .
It’s a matter of relative indifference to me whether I live a long or a short time.
Moreover, I’m not competent to manage myself in physical matters the way a doctor can in this respect. So I carry on as one unknowing but who knows this one thing — ‘I must finish a particular work within a few years’ — I needn’t rush myself, for that does no good — but I must carry on working in calm and serenity, as regularly and concentratedly as possible, as succinctly as possible.
I’m concerned with the world only in that I have a certain obligation and duty, as it were — because I’ve walked the earth for 30 years — to leave a certain souvenir in the form of drawings or paintings in gratitude. Not done to please some movement or other, but in which an honest human feeling is expressed. Thus this work is the goal…
— Vincent Van Gogh https://austinkleon.com/2021/03/30/a-certain-souvenir-made-in-gratitude/
This screwdriver, what’s it for? The one with with black oxide non-slip tips, tri-lobe ergonomic handles, and a special “Speed Zone” at the base of the handle, which allows for faster turning in low back torque applications. You know, the one with a nut bolster for added strength and versatility.
What’s it for?
Can I use it to open a paint can? Well, sure you can, but you could find easier and cheaper substitutes. And you might get paint on the screwdriver, which would make it much less effective for its real job.
Can I use it to turn this Phillips-head screw? Well, possibly, but you’ll probably strip the screw.
Can I use it to stir my coffee? Well, sure, but why?
This all seems obvious.
And yet, we can ask the same questions about your website, your advanced degree, your office building… Or this meeting, that job description or the choice to work a nine-hour day. What’s it for?
If it’s a tool, not a destination, what’s the tool for?
It doesn’t have to be expensive, all-purpose or exactly the same as the others are using. It simply needs to do the job you need it to do better than any other alternative method.
— Seth Godin, Screwdriver clarity https://seths.blog/2021/03/screwdriver-clarity/
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If you have time to get offended by what you read online, you aren’t focused. — https://twitter.com/orangebook_/status/1363101053059792897?s=20
You can’t expect somebody to become a biologist by giving them access to the Harvard University biology library and saying, “Just look through it.” That will give them nothing. The internet is the same, except magnified enormously.
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The person who wins the Nobel Prize in biology is not the person who read the most journal articles and took the most notes on them. It’s the person who knew what to look for.
Cultivating that capacity to seek what’s significant, always willing to question whether you’re on the right track, that’s what education is going to be about, whether it’s using computers and internet, or pencil and paper and books.
— Noam Chomsky via, https://jamesclear.com/3-2-1/march-25-2021?rh_ref=e1cbd323
3 IDEAS FROM ME I. “Italy is known for tomatoes. Thailand for chilies. Germany for sauerkraut. But tomatoes originated in Peru. Thailand imported chilies from Central America. Sauerkraut started in China. Everything is a remix—and the world is better for it. Share what you know. Learn from others.” II. A reminder from Atomic Habits: “Habits […]
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