Erin

“When we allow our standards to be impacted by our past performance and negative perception of it, we are setting our systems up for failure as we allow them to drift toward low performance and take our goals and expectations right along with them.

In order to combat this, we need to keep our standards steadfast despite dips in performance and expect that we will rise to meet them. If we do this, we can flip the script and start drifting toward better performance.”
― Steven Schuster, The Art of Thinking in Systems: A Crash Course in Logic, Critical Thinking, And Analysis-Based Decision Making. - Strategic Problem Solving for Everyday Life

“Dedication and discipline beats brilliance and giftedness every day of the week. And”
― Robin S. Sharma, The 5AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life.

“You will hold this book in your hands, and learn all the things that I learned, right along with me:
There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight. It takes forty-one seconds to climb a ladder three stories tall. It’s not easy to imagine the year 3012, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try. We have new capabilities now—strange powers we’re still getting used to. The mountains are a message from Aldrag the Wyrm-Father. Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in.
After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember this:
A man walking fast down a dark lonley street. Quick steps and hard breathing, all wonder and need. A bell above a door and the tinkle it makes. A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.”
― Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

“Often, a bad example teaches us more about who we wish to become than a good one could ever provide.”
― Robin S. Sharma, The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life