I am ... just another database record in the cloud and these are my notes to myself.
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"People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities. Ability is not a fixed property; there is a huge variability in how you perform. People who have a sense of self-efficacy bounce back from failures; they approach things in terms of how to handle them rather than worrying about what can go wrong."
Albert Bandura in "Self-Efficacy: The Exercise of Control" (1997)
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"Now, most people hate to admit they're wrong, but it didn't bother Bill one bit. All he cared about was what was right, not who was right. That's what makes Bill very, very dangerous."
— Larry Ellison on Bill Gates
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“Long-range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.” -Peter Drucker. Damn good.
"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work."
by Peter Drucker
from Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973).
“Although a snail cannot fly to the top of the pyramid like an eagle, its perseverance can still take it high enough to see a greater landscape.”
by Yu Minhong, founder of "New Oriental" edu conglomerate
in "I Once Walked on the Brink of Collapse"
"Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains"
by Thomas Carlyle - philosopher
in "History of Friedrich II"
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To ensure you’ve already peaked, don’t try to accomplish anything great.
This is why 𝘵𝘳𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 full-heartedly to do something great is the point, where "great" is defined by you, not others.
Then surround yourself by those with similar attitudes.
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The habit loop breaks where the next action is unclear, invisible, or too easy to postpone.
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The actual arc of a well-lived life isn’t a march toward “problem-free.” It’s a slow, deliberate migration from imposed problems to selected ones.
From “this happened to me” to “ I signed up for this.”
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“You should Z.”
“But Z is hard!”
OK, then don’t do Z. And get defeated by those who do hard things.
"Our creed is simple: the book is a source of structured knowledge."
by Boris Zimin (son of Dmitri Zimin)
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The easiest way to stay mediocre is to keep your goals abstract and your days unexamined. Vague ambition lets you feel serious without forcing contact with serious work. The truth shows up in what you repeatedly do, not what you admire.
