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What You Control Vs. What you Don’t
You can control whether or not you write 1000 words a day. You can control how many articles you choose to publish. This more than anything is what it means to create for an audience of one. Focusing on the things you control taps into the profound power of consistency.
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The Long Game
The beauty of the long game is that there’s less competition because the overwhelming majority of people (millions) are playing the short game:
- There are far fewer people attempting to write books than there are people composing tweets.
- There are far fewer people attempting t...
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Commitment to Mastery Leads to Higher Quality Products and Perennial Sellers
The paradox of Prioritizing mastery over Metrics is that it makes what you’ve created much more Scalable. If your product Sucks, no amount of "growth hacking" will cause it to go from lingering in obscurity to becoming a Unicorn. When you commit to mastery, you increase the likelihood of producing s...
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In the end you have greater control over your actions than you do your results. Your results are created by your actions.
BRIAN MORAN
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Mastery Precedes the Internet
Because we’ve quantified nearly every aspect of our lives and made it nearly effortless to capture a person’s attention with selfies, tweets, and status updates, people overvalue metrics and undervalue mastery.
Most people who have become masters of their craft did so long before social med...
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The Long Game Is Hard
Very few people commit to mastery because it requires playing the long game. It takes years of deep work and deliberate practice.
Why spend ten years becoming so good they can’t ignore you, when you can spend 20 seconds uploading a picture to Instagram or composing a tweet to be...
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Mastery Over Metrics
The paradox of prioritizing mastery over metrics is that it makes what you’ve created much more scalable. If your product (book, podcast, app, etc.) sucks, no amount of “growth hacking” will cause it to go from lingering in obscurity to becoming a unicorn.
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Concentrate on what you can control
Rather than dwelling on the things you can't control, try putting your effort into the things that you can.
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Learn to let go of what you can’t control
Learning to let go of things you can’t control is a critical life lesson! It would save so many people from a lifetime of torture if they learned this....
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