If someone’s much better than you at something, they probably try much harder. You probably underestimate how much harder they try. I’m not saying that talent isn’t a meaningful differentiator, because it certainly is, but I think people generally underestimate how effort needs to be poured into talent in order to develop it. So much of getting good at anything is just pure labor: figuring out how to try and then offering up the hours."
The
biggest change in my professional maturity came when I became Actually
Responsible for things. ... I gained a lot of appreciation for people who make
things, and lost a lot of tolerance for people who only pontificate. I found
myself especially frustrated with my past self, whose default was to complain
and/or comment, then wonder why things didn’t magically get better."
“Most people never pick
up the phone. Most people never call and ask. And that's what separates
sometimes the people who do things from those who just dream about them. You have
to act. You have to be willing to fail. You have to be willing to crash and
burn. With people on the phone or starting a company, if you're afraid you'll
fail, you won't get very far."
— Steve Jobs
If you worked
as hard at doing difficult things as you did avoiding them, you’d become
unstoppable.
“A year from now you will wish you had started today.”
— Karen Lamb
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