BRIAN MORAN

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.