Shane Parrish
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Question to Bill Belichick: "With all you have accomplished in your coaching career, what is left that you still want to accomplish?"
Belichick's answer: "I'd like to go out and have a good practice today. That would be at the top of the list right now."
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In the short term, you are as good as your intensity. In the long term, you are only as good as your consistency.
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The person who carefully designs their daily routine goes further than the person that negotiates with themselves every day.
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In the short term, you are as good as your intensity. In the long term, you are only as good as your consistency.
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Short-term results come from intensity. Long-term results come from consistency.
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Writing is often the process by which you realize that you do not understand what you are talking about.
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You don't need more time, you need more focus.
Fewer projects. Fewer commitments. Fewer obligations. Fewer responsibilities.
Carefully choose what you commit to, then go all in.
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Superpowers you can have:
- Ability to change yourself & your mind
- Not taking things personally
- Not needing to prove you're right
- Careful selection of all relationships
- Staying calm
- Being alone without being lonely
- Being ok being uncomfortable
- Thinking for oneself
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Things you control:
Your effort.
Your beliefs.
Your identity.
Your actions.
Your attitude.
Your integrity.
Your thoughts.
The food you eat.
How kind you are.
The media you read.
How reflective you are.
How thoughtful you are.
The people you listen to.
The type of friend you are.
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Sometimes success is 3% brains and 97% not getting distracted by the internet.
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Ninety percent of success can be boiled down to consistently doing the obvious thing for an uncommonly long period of time without convincing yourself that you're smarter than you are.
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Here’s the difference between amateurs and professionals.
👇👇👇
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One mark of a smart person is the ability to learn from people they don’t like.
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So much advantage in life comes from being willing to look like an idiot over the short term.
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Wealthy and anonymous is better than rich and famous.
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Distance yourself from people that you don't want to become.
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The most powerful productivity tool ever invented is simply the word "no."
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Sources of personal competitive advantage:
- delayed gratification
- capital
- network (who you know)
- unique skills or combinations
- platform
- ability to suffer
- family / home life
- speed
- ability to change your mind
- ability to learn/adapt
What am I missing?
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The biggest generator of long term results is learning to do things when you don't feel like doing them.
If you let excuses or emotion drive behavior, you're cheating yourself.
Put aside the excuses and start doing what you need to do.
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Ideas are cheap. Execution is expensive.
The ability to execute separates people, not the ability to come up with ideas.
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Ninety percent of success can be boiled down to consistently doing the obvious thing for an uncommonly long period of time without convincing yourself that you're smarter than you are.
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Finite games are won with intensity. Infinite games are won with consistency.
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Eventually ....
Execution beats luck
Consistency beats intensity
Curiosity beats smart
Kind beats clever
Together beats alone
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Things that reduce the odds of long-term success:
+ Saying yes to too many things.
+ Making excuses.
+ Staying up late.
+ Eating poorly.
+ Checking email first thing in the AM.
+ Working more to fix being busy.
+ Buying things you don't have the money for.
What am I missing?
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Think like a philosopher.
Train and rest like an athlete.
Take action like an entrepreneur.
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How to be productive:
- Don't schedule anything in the AM. Ever.
- All meetings in two afternoons a week.
- Use email or calls to replace most meetings.
- Keep emails under 5 sentences.
- Keep calls under 15 mins.
- Delete emails without responding.
- Take time to walk/think.
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If you wait until you’re ready, you’ll be waiting the rest of your life.
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"When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure."
— Viktor Frankl
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You can disagree without saying anything. Not needing to win trivial arguments saves you time, energy, and friends.
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Jeff Bezos on the importance of what's not going to change
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Sooner or later you realize everything comes down to mindset.
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The person who carefully designs their daily routine goes further than the person that negotiates with themselves every day.
Let inertia work for you.
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You don't need more time, you need more focus.
As Bruce Lee observed, "The successful warrior is the average man with laser like focus."
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Things that matter that aren't taught in school
+ Outcomes over ego (change your mind, don't take things personally, etc)
+ If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
+ seek wealth (assets that earn)
+ Not all leverage is financial
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How to win:
Drink more water
Eat better
Sleep 8 hours
Walk outside
Work on a few projects you care about
Work in 90m increments
Put your phone on silent
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“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
— Albert Einstein
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So much advantage in life comes from being willing to look like an idiot in the short term.
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My uncle ran a small business. He taught me 3 things as a teen that I've never forgotten.
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One of the most beneficial skills you can learn in life is how to consistently put yourself in a good position.
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“The five most dangerous words in business are: Everybody else is doing it.”
— Warren Buffett
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"We suffer more in imagination than in reality."
— Seneca
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Something I try to teach the kids is the idea of one more.
One more rep.
One more step.
One more minute.
One more revision.
One more practice test.
The difference between average and outstanding is often just one more.
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The courage to start.
The discipline to focus.
The confidence to figure it out.
The patience to know progress is not always visible.
The persistence to keep going, even on the bad days.
That's the formula.
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Talent and potential mean nothing if you can't consistently do the boring things when you don't feel like doing them.
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One of the biggest keys to success at anything hard is believing that you can figure it out as you go along.
A lot of people won't start until there is no uncertainty. Because most hard things can't be figured out in advance they never start.
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"Complaining is not a strategy. You have to work with the world as you find it, not as you would have it be." — Jeff Bezos
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You have to be willing to look like an idiot in the short term to look like a genius in the long term.
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Reading for curiosity is better than reading for self improvement.
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Integrity is a choice.
Kindness is a choice.
Discipline is a choice.
Consistency is a choice.
The sooner you make these choices, the further you will go.
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Invest the best hours of your day on the biggest opportunity, not the biggest problem.
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"Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets."
— Leonardo Da Vinci
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Doing boring things without getting bored is a competitive advantage.
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If you're not obsessed with it, you'll never master it.
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What appears to be luck is often preparation and patience.
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Working hard matters but working on the right things matters even more.
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A simple rule I follow in business:
Pay every invoice within 48 hours.
You'd be surprised how many times people go out of their way to work with us because they know they'll get paid right away.
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"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."
— Marcus Aurelius
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The quicker you want something, the easier you are to manipulate.
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Stick to the basics.
Do your job.
Avoid stupidity.
Speak for yourself.
Be attentive to details.
Put results ahead of being right.
Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.
What am I missing?
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What looks like skill is often consistent discipline.
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The most practical skill in life is learning to do things when you don’t feel like doing them. Anyone can do it when it’s easy, but most people drop out the minute it gets hard.
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"You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple."
— Steve Jobs
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Today is the day!
After four years of writing, re-writing, and editing, my first full-length book—Clear Thinking—is finally out.
You don’t need to be smarter than others to outperform them if you can out-position them. Anyone looks like a genius when they’re in a good position,
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People signal what they don’t understand.
The person who signals they’re wealthy, doesn’t understand wealth.
The person who signals how busy they are, doesn’t get anything done.
The stronger the signal the weaker the understanding.
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If you wait until you're ready, you'll be waiting the rest of your life.
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"It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own."
— Marcus Aurelius
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What was the best book you read in 2022 and the main lesson you took from it?
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“The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. And the first to forget is the happiest.”
— Unknown
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"The real problem of humanity ... we have Palaeolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and godlike technology." — E. O. Wilson
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If you're not obsessed with it, you'll never master it.
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Read old books. Read the best ones over and over again.
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The work of reading:
1. Read a book while highlighting heavily.
2. Distill highlights into core insights, written in your own words.
3. Put into a searchable format.
4. Review regularly.
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The cost of trying to do everything is accomplishing nothing.
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The difference between good and great results is often found in doing the boring things you know you should do when you don't feel like doing them.
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Just because it's not your fault doesn't mean it's not your responsibility.
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Over the long run, focus and discipline often beat talent.
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