People spend too much time on the last 24 hours and not enough time on the last 6,000 years.
— Will Durant

via the #FarnamStreet newsletter, https://fs.blog/brain-food/may-19-2024/

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Nine sources of advantage:

1. Raw talent/intelligence - Some people are just naturally better and smarter.
2. Hard work - Some people work harder.
3. Differentiation - Seeing the world differently. Doing something different. Reading different books. Interpreting the same information differently.
4. Process / Discipline - Creating a process and following it. Working out every day is a great example.
5. Talent Collector - The ability to hire the best people and get the most out of them.
6. Patience - A lack of patience changes the outcome.
7. Ability to take pain - Are you willing to look like an idiot to get better? How much risk are you willing to take, AND, importantly, can you handle the losses?
8. Temperament - Keeping your head when everyone else is losing theirs.
9. Luck

Most of these are within your control.

— Shane Parrish
https://fs.blog/brain-food/august-20-2023/

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Writing gives poor thinking nowhere to hide.

When your invisible thoughts are made visible, you are forced to confront them as they are, not as you wish them to be. You can’t simply take a few minutes here and there, get the gist of the problem, and expect to have clear thinking and unique insights.

Good thinking, like good writing, demands patience.
*(and practice —me)*

— Shane Parrish

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https://fs.blog/brain-food/august-6-2023/

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Good writing is expensive, but poor writing costs a fortune.

Poor writing transfers the work from the writer to the reader. Good writing, on the other hand, nearly reads itself, allowing the reader to spend more time thinking about the ideas than pulling out meaning. Poor writing might be one of the single biggest invisible costs in organizations.

— Shane Parrish

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https://fs.blog/brain-food/august-6-2023/

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“If my critics saw me walking over the Thames, they would say it was because I couldn’t swim.”

— Margaret Thatcher

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https://fs.blog/brain-food/august-6-2023/

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