In life-living : you want to be NAIVE. You don’t want to be cynical. You don’t even want to be sceptical Of course you don’t want to be too naive. You don’t want to hit an absorbing barrier: you don’t want to die, you don’t want to go broke, you don’t want to damage your …
Tag: Success
Perfection Vs Mediocrity
Perfection vs mediocrity is a false dichotomy Perfectionism and mediocrity are both confusion, both are failures of understanding Perfectionism is a delusion You held delusional, non-existing standard in your mind Then you delusionally claim to be moving towards it You’re not moving towards it. You’re moving nowhere. You’re not moving towards it because your …
FIRE
It’s about that FIRE At the end it’s all about that fire It’s not what you do — it’s whether there’s that fire in that The relevance of WHAT YOU DO only concerns FUELLING that fire But once it burns — it just burns It consumes The relevance of WHAT YOU DO only …
is it ok to fucking suck?
It’s ok to fail. It’s not ok to suck. Fail fast and grow. (if you can’t fail fast then fail slow — but GROW) Don’t fail without good reason. Fail then grow — so that you are actually good at something, so that you innovate, so that you elevate, so that you push the envelope …
if you knew who was smart then you would be smart
if you knew who was smart then you would be smart if you knew who was smart then you would be smart, you would know what to do, you would do what the smart one does if you knew who was smart then you would be smart, you would know what to decide, …
You Will Compare Yourself
You will compare yourself How could you not? How else would you know how to solve your problems? You try to solve your problems — and not until you solved them — obviously you turn to those who did. You will compare yourself — like you’d compare two strategies, two solutions, two ideas. You will …
As Hard As Possible And No Harder
There’s as hard as you go There’s as hard as you think you can go There’s as hard as you can go There’s as hard as you could go And there’s as hard as it’s possible to go To say “I can’t go any harder” is ignorant. Maybe you can To say “it’s impossible …
WHAT You Did, NOT How
There is no delusion more insidious than the delusion that HOW you did it is somehow more important then WHAT YOU DID, There is no delusion more insidious than the delusion that HOW you did it matters at all There’s only what you want to do — then DOING of it When you want …
If You Can’t Take Them With You — You Have To Abandon Them
Abandoning others is condemned Betraying others is condemned But what if it’s necessary? This has nothing to do with taking yourself up at the expense of others With the exception of you removing yourself from their lives, abandoning them Besides that — you’re not “using” them, you’re not getting one up on them You’re …
Anything Stagnates
I often write how man stagnates …but anything stagnates – any entity. If you stagnate – do something new. Do something different. Do things you do different. If an organization stagnates – make it different. Make it do things different. And if you won’t – the difference will come from the outside – …