Having a "stupider people have done this" attitude about the things you want to do can open so many doors
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Having a "stupider people have done this" attitude about the things you want to do can open so many doors
“Pine Barrens” - The Sopranos (S3E11)
𝓰𝓻𝓮𝓮𝓷 𝓯𝓸𝓸𝓭
desiring something I can neither recognize nor define
“An email from Coach Sommer I revisit often:
Hi Tim,
Patience. Far too soon to expect strength improvements. Strength improvements [for a movement like this] take a minimum of 6 weeks. Any perceived improvements prior to that are simply the result of improved synaptic facilitation. In plain English, the central nervous system simply became more efficient at that particular movement with practice. This is, however, not to be confused with actual strength gains.
Dealing with the temporary frustration of not making progress is an integral part of the path towards excellence. In fact, it is essential and something that every single elite athlete has had to learn to deal with. If the pursuit of excellence was easy, everyone would do it.
In fact, this impatience in dealing with frustration is the primary reason that most people fail to achieve their goals. Unreasonable expectations timewise, resulting in unnecessary frustration, due to a perceived feeling of failure. Achieving the extraordinary is not a linear process.
The secret is to show up, do the work, and go home.
A blue collar work ethic married to indomitable will. It is literally that simple. Nothing interferes. Nothing can sway you from your purpose. Once the decision is made, simply refuse to budge. Refuse to compromise.
And accept that quality long-term results require quality long-term focus. No emotion. No drama. No beating yourself up over small bumps in the road. Learn to enjoy and appreciate the process. This is especially important because you are going to spend far more time on the actual journey than with those all too brief moments of triumph at the end.
Certainly celebrate the moments of triumph when they occur. More importantly, learn from defeats when they happen. In fact, if you are not encountering defeat on a fairly regular basis, you are not trying hard enough. And absolutely refuse to accept less than your best.
Throw out a timeline. It will take what it takes.
If the commitment is to a long-term goal and not to a series of smaller intermediate goals, then only one decision needs to be made and adhered to. Clear, simple, straightforward. Much easier to maintain than having to make small decision after small decision to stay the course when dealing with each step along the way. This provides far too many opportunities to inadvertently drift from your chosen goal. The single decision is one of the most powerful tools in the toolbox.”
Leopold Munsch - "Bay in Abbazia"
Advice I would give to early-career people in the year 2026
Read widely, in your industry and outside of it — it is an input to the quality of your thinking especially when everything is slop-optimized these days for short attention spans
AI makes it especially easy to be “average”, whether in the output you get, or in the prompts you copy from someone else’s research and thinking
In some cases, that’s great; you can get from “beginner” to “average” faster than ever before
In other cases, don’t let it dull what makes your perspective valuable and uniquely you
Put in the work to develop deep expertise in a venn diagram intersection of knowledge that very few others have + what the world needs and is willing to pay for
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Intuition does not come to an unprepared mind.
-Albert Einstein