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Jan 6, 2014 · Working 40 hours a week makes our lives become narrow and constricted, so that we lose sight of whole vistas of possibility—of activity and adventure—outside it. There’s so much to learn in ...
Sep 9, 2019 · It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.”. - Colin Powell. 10. “It is fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”. - Bill Gates. 11. “Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of a greater or equal benefit.”. - Napoleon Hill.
Dec 5, 2019 · If we didn’t work so hard, our economies would fail, and we would all be living in poverty. But this isn’t necessarily the case. Less work, more sleep, better life.
- Find Something You’Re Actually Great at
- Find Something You’Re Confident in
- Find Something That Sparks Joy
- Disentangle Your Goals from Your Identity
- Create A Full Life
- Define Success For Yourself
- All About Ease
Stupidly obvious yet deceivingly hard: Pick something you’re actually really good at. It’s hard because the things we’re good at and the things we want to pursue aren’t always aligned. On top of that it’s not always easy to be honest with yourself about what you’re naturally good at. But there are clear signs when you’ve found your talent: People w...
Confidence breathes ease into all things. If you’re confident, you might not even have to be that good at the thing you’re pursuing. Confidence helps you relax and focus on the task. Confidence helps you enjoy the task. And confidence can convince people you’re the person for the job—whether that’s justified or not. Okay, it does depend somewhat on...
In the words of the great philosopher Marie Kondo: find something that sparks joy. This is important for various reasons. Pursuing something for reals—no matter how good or confident you are—is going to lead to moments of rejection and failure. Of self-doubt and heartbreak. The only way you’re going to get through all that and persist, until the en...
I consider my passion for writing and directing a huge part of who I am and a huge part of my life. It occupies most of my waking hours, my imagination, and a lot of my conversations. It’s how I spend my days and pay for my rent. It’s how I built character. How I grew as a human being. However, don’t bring yourself down or build yourself up by equa...
While the first few tips were perhaps of the harder kind—the ones genetics and deeply-rooted cognitions partially dictate for you—there is one easier thing you can do to create, well, ease (one shot for every time I mention “ease!”): Create a full life. By “full” I don’t mean clog up your schedule 24/7. I mean make your life fun, whatever “fun” mea...
Last but definitely not least. I was once told this by an actress who had been told it by a teacher: Before you do anything, define what success means to you. Is making a living off of creating fairy jewelry on Etsy enough, or do you need to become the world’s biggest supplier of fairy jewelry and have three mansions on three continents? One is not...
So I’ve been rambling about how it seems a degree of ease is key to finding success, but what is it about ease? What is this cruel trick of the universe that somehow lets us find more success in things that come easier—whether by function of our confidence, talent, joy or by them simply being less important to us? I don’t claim to know why this is....
Sep 25, 2022 · Newt Gingrich. “Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.”. “I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.”. “Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.”. “You can't trust anybody with power.”.
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Jun 14, 2024 · They were wrong. Here’s what actually works. Lachlan Brown. June 14, 2024. 4 min read. As the founder of Hack Spirit, I’ve always been intrigued by how certain nuggets of wisdom get cemented into our collective consciousness as undeniable truths. One such axiom — “Work harder and you’ll succeed” — has been a mantra for many ...
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May 14, 2020 · May 14, 2020. Purpose. There is work, and there are results. The two go hand-in-hand. For example, you can’t get results without putting in work. But just because you put in the work doesn’t mean you’ll get results. "One of the reasons people don't achieve their dreams is that they desire to change their results without changing their ...
