Hard work got you here. It might not get you any further. At the peak of his career, Bill Gates scheduled his days in five-minute blocks. He considered rest a sign of laziness. He filled every second of his calendar in the belief that more effort meant more results. This was Bill Gates. One of […]
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There’s a scene a lot of people recognize. You finish the day exhausted – but not the kind of tired that disappears after a good night’s sleep. It’s a fatigue that builds. Meetings, notifications, small decisions stacked on top of big ones. And then, at some point during the week, you spend a few hours
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Practicing an instrument reveals something no productivity book ever quite manages to show: discipline isn’t willpower. It’s a way of paying attention. There’s a scene familiar to anyone who has ever studied music. You’re sitting with your instrument, you’ve repeated the same passage ten times, and it still falls apart at the same spot. The
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Building a career that lasts means resisting the pull of what’s popular In 1999, Warren Buffett was invited to a high-profile conference in Sun Valley, Idaho. In the audience sat executives from Amazon, Apple, Intel, and Yahoo. The entire world was euphoric about the internet. Stocks of companies that barely had any revenue were surging
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Simple practices to reconnect with your own thinking amid the digital noise It was 2007. Arianna Huffington had just built one of the largest news platforms in the world. From the outside, everything looked like it was working. From the inside, she was operating at her limit – 18-hour days, running from meeting to meeting,
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How science and practice show that any ability can be developed with the right method In 1965, a young man obsessed with cinema applied to the film school at the University of Southern California. He was rejected. He tried again. Rejected. He tried a third time. Rejected again. His name was Steven Spielberg. The same
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