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 …
Tag: Work
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 …
Stress Is Inefficient
Stress ultimately is inefficient Stress ultimately is inefficient because you burn your precious (energy, time) resources on being stressed Stress is a stepping stone Stress, engendered by necessity, will take you from laziness to productivity Only what’s next? Only what’s next? It’s laziness again Productive laziness, effortless productivity Stress is thus …
DEAL-BREAKERS
Deal-breakers are not irrelevant. Deal-breakers are deal-breakers If you ignore deal-breakers now — your deal will fail later — and with extra damage. Advantage and disadvantage don’t cancel each other out. Option with disadvantages obviously, invariably, inevitably, DOES HAVE disadvantages. Regardless of the advantages otherwise. Merit and fault don’t cancel each other …
Make It Harder to Make It Easier
Make it harder to make it easier Try doing it the hard way so that the regular way will become easier Easier and more effective and more successful This making-it-harder strategy is basically finding a new angle, new approach, finding a way to look outside the box The added difficulty forces you to adapt …
Freedom vs Schedule
Does schedule kill freedom? Does having a schedule mean surrendering some of one’s freedom? Does schedule kill creativity? It schedule anti-spontaneity, anti-creativity, anti-life? What is a schedule? It’s the way you organised your time Does organisation destroy freedom? Is organisation the opposite of freedom? Does having objects in your room destroy your freedom? Does …
Neither Innovative Nor Traditional Can Be Appraised
You want to know what’s the next big thing going to be You want to know what’s the next big thing NOT going to be You want to know where to put your resources: your time, your energy, your capital, your attention You live in the world therefore you’re interested in the world therefore you’re …
“Poisoned Gifts”
Everything that happens to you can bring you closer to reality — or farther away from it You view the gifts of fate in regard to the short-term benefits they entail If you like something — you’re happy with such gift If you don’t like something — you curse such gift There’s a …
Anything But (The Thing) Is A Distraction
Anything BUT (the thing) is a distraction Either you do the thing — the right thing, the most important thing — or you’re distracting yourself Whatever else you do, it well may be, and surely will be, of great value (that’s what makes it a perfect distraction, a perfect excuse) But there is only one …