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SCOTTHYOUNG
scotthyoung.com
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Working hard all day doesn’t matter if it’s on the wrong tasks. The most critical factor in your productivity is what you decide to work on.
The question of what to work on is under-discussed. There’s plenty of advice on getting work done: setting up good habits, creati...
A fundamental distinction is between having too many ideas or too few.
In practice, most ideas—even groundbreaking ones—tend to be derivative or incremental. Even ideas that look original usually start out as a permutation on something already extant. Given background and context, even the most radical suggestions look like incremental steps.
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Much of life boils down to figuring out a path for yourself and then getting yourself to actually walk it.
We often fail to stick to our plans because we’re not confident in our chosen path. And we fail to find paths forward because we don’t try enough things to find our footing.
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