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Not All Work
When you have a goal it’s easy to look at someone who is already doing it and then try to reverse engineer their strategy.
In some cases, this is really useful.
Learning from the experiences of successful people is a great way to accelerate your own learning curve.
But it’s equally important to remember that the systems, habits, and strategies that successful people are using today are probably not the same ones they were using when they began their journey.
What is optimal for them right now isn’t necessarily needed for you to get started. There is a difference between the two.
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Imperfect Is Perfect
- Obsessing about the ultimate strategy or the ultimate diet or the ultimate golf club can be a clever way to prevent yourself from doing hard work.
An imperfect start can always be improved, but obsessing over a perfect plan will never take you anywhere on...
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Avoiding by Optimizing
Claiming that you need to “learn more” or “get all of your ducks in a row” can often be a crutch that prevents you from moving forward on the stuff that actually matters.
- You can compl...
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What is Optimal vs. What is Needed
Learning from others is great and I do it all the time myself.
But comparing your current situation to someone who is already successful can often make you feel like you lack the required resources to get started at all.
If you look at their optimal setup, it can be ...
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