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You say that full energy given to those sixteen hours will lessen the value of the business eight? Not so. On the contrary, it will assuredly increase the value of the business eight. One of the chief things which my typical man has to learn is that the mental faculties are capable of a continuous hard activity; they do not tire like an arm or a leg. All they want is change—not rest, except in sleep

Like Roosevelt at Harvard, attack the task with every free neuron until it gives way under your unwavering barrage of concentration.

When it comes to deep work, in other words, consider the use of collaboration when appropriate, as it can push your results to a new level. At the same time, don’t lionize this quest for interaction and positive randomness to the point where it crowds out the unbroken concentration ultimately required to wring something useful out of the swirl of ideas all around us.

Whether you’re a computer programmer, writer, marketer, consultant, or entrepreneur, your situation has become similar to Jung trying to outwit Freud, or Jason Benn trying to hold his own in a hot start-up: To succeed you have to produce the absolute best stuff you’re capable of producing—a task that requires depth.

Go out of your way to find humility when things are
going right and forgiveness/compassion when they
go wrong. Because it’s never as good or as bad as it
looks. The world is big and complex. Luck and risk
are both real and hard to identify. Do so when
judging both yourself and others. Respect the power
of luck and risk and you’ll have a better chance of
focusing on things you can actually control.

Nassim Taleb says, “You can be risk loving and yet
completely averse to ruin.” And indeed, you should.

Wealth is the nice cars not purchased. The diamonds not
bought. The watches not worn, the clothes forgone and the
first-class upgrade declined. Wealth is financial assets that
haven’t yet been converted into the stuff you see.

"A mindset that can be paranoid and optimistic at the same
time is hard to maintain, because seeing things as black or
white takes less effort than accepting nuance. But you need
short-term paranoia to keep you alive long enough to exploit
long-term optimism."

I can't read this shit anymore