Jay Acunzo > Quotes

“There’s more information and advice out there than ever before. However, our problem isn’t the volume of information; it’s how we make sense of it all.”
― Jay Acunzo, Break the Wheel: Question Best Practices, Hone Your Intuition, and Do Your Best Work

“The foundation of great work is no longer expertise. It’s awareness.”
― Jay Acunzo, Break the Wheel: Question Best Practices, Hone Your Intuition, and Do Your Best Work

“The Internet age has a dark side in our work: Advice Overload. It’s just so tempting and easy to seek our answers elsewhere that we find ourselves with far too many of them, far too quickly.”
― Jay Acunzo, Break the Wheel: Question Best Practices, Hone Your Intuition, and Do Your Best Work

“In a workplace flooded with conventional thinking, intuition is the process of thinking for yourself.”
― Jay Acunzo, Break the Wheel: Question Best Practices, Hone Your Intuition, and Do Your Best Work

“Once we begin thinking for ourselves, we see the wheel of best practices for what it is: insufficient information.”
― Jay Acunzo, Break the Wheel: Question Best Practices, Hone Your Intuition, and Do Your Best Work

“finding the true believers.”
― Jay Acunzo, Break the Wheel: Question Best Practices, Hone Your Intuition, and Do Your Best Work

“Best practices become incredibly dangerous because of how precise and prescriptive they are. They seem so specific, but in reality, they lack the context that only you can provide.”
― Jay Acunzo, Break the Wheel: Question Best Practices, Hone Your Intuition, and Do Your Best Work

“It has never been easier to be average.”
― Jay Acunzo, Break the Wheel: Question Best Practices, Hone Your Intuition, and Do Your Best Work

“When we make learning the point, instead of end results, we tend to get better end results.”
― Jay Acunzo, Break the Wheel: Question Best Practices, Hone Your Intuition, and Do Your Best Work

“When you reason from first principles, you tend to look a little crazy, because others lack the context you possess.”
― Jay Acunzo, Break the Wheel: Question Best Practices, Hone Your Intuition, and Do Your Best Work

“We have to constantly question everything we put into practice in order to continually improve.”
― Jay Acunzo, Break the Wheel: Question Best Practices, Hone Your Intuition, and Do Your Best Work

“Your specific situation holds all kinds of variables that no best practice takes into account. If the best practices do take them into account, consider it a happy accident.”
― Jay Acunzo, Break the Wheel: Question Best Practices, Hone Your Intuition, and Do Your Best Work

“In constantly updating our understanding of the world, we act like investigators rather than experts. we focus our efforts hunting for evidence and challenging assumptions instead of relying on generalities or false absolutes.”
― Jay Acunzo, Break the Wheel: Question Best Practices, Hone Your Intuition, and Do Your Best Work

“Get angry at average work. Then have the audacity to do something exceptional.”
― Jay Acunzo, Break the Wheel: Question Best Practices, Hone Your Intuition, and Do Your Best Work

“Wild best practices masquerade as final answers, their merely possibilities.”
― Jay Acunzo, Break the Wheel: Question Best Practices, Hone Your Intuition, and Do Your Best Work

“When we embrace our constraints, we begin to scale our work based on results, not theory or trends.”
― Jay Acunzo, Break the Wheel: Question Best Practices, Hone Your Intuition, and Do Your Best Work

“Many of us struggle to trust our own observations and feelings of the world- especially if it clashes with a best practice.”
― Jay Acunzo, Break the Wheel: Question Best Practices, Hone Your Intuition, and Do Your Best Work

“What matters isn’t the decision itself. What matters in the end is that your decisions are the right ones for you.”
― Jay Acunzo, Break the Wheel: Question Best Practices, Hone Your Intuition, and Do Your Best Work