@signulll Reminds of the this Bhagavad Gita gem: “Your commitment is to action alone, not to the fruits of action. That must never be: you must not be motivated by the fruits of your actions. Yet you must not become attached to inaction. Indifferent alike whether you gain or gain not.”
Rory McIlroy on the paradox of chasing success.
“I think it would be a pretty unfulfilling pursuit if you’re just chasing records and chasing results…If all you’re thinking about is winning and results, you’re playing the wrong game.”
One of the great paradoxes of performance is that the outcomes we want are rarely achieved by obsessing over the outcomes themselves.
Ironically, the less your identity depends on the outcome, the more freedom you often have to perform at your best.
If you enjoy golf or mental game lessons, follow along this weekend as I’ll be sharing more highlights and insights from the Open championship.
🎥: The Open
“As soon as we reflect, deliberate, and conceptualize, the original unconsciousness is lost and a thought interferes.... the arrow is off the string but does not fly straight to the target, nor does the target stand where it is. Calculation, which is miscalculation, sets in....
Attention is the only wealth we truly possess. We surrender it a thousand taps at a time, until our days are spent, our dreams deferred, and we wonder where our lives went.
@brianmichaelf@vrexec I had this same exact thought yesterday at the airport while I saw a bunch of guys in suits and book bags walking around the airport.
W/ some exceptions, the ppl In ur field w/ the most outsized results are not necessarily the hardest workers. They usually are the most:
Consistent, leveraged, strategic, concentrated, disciplined, and skilled.
A person who spends thirty minutes scrolling before bed has not merely lost thirty minutes.
They may have lost the version of tomorrow morning where they woke up sharp enough to write.
They may have lost the version of next week where they finally tolerated boredom long enough for an original thought to appear.
The transaction is invisible because the price is paid in probability.
A Monday morning question for you:
If you want a plant to grow, you can fuss over it every day—watering, weeding, moving it toward the sun. Or you can place it in the right soil and let nature do most of the work. A seed planted in the right spot often thrives on its own. Life is much the same. Progress is not only about how hard you work, but also about where you decide to work.
Where is your energy better spent right now: pushing harder or planting yourself in better ground?
1. "The road to hell is paved with the pursuit of volume.
Volume leads to marginal products, marginal customers, and greatly increased managerial complexity... Hard work leads to low returns. Insight and doing what we want leads to high returns... Strive for excellence in few
2. Things rather than good performance in many... It is not shortage of time that should worry us, but the tendency for the majority of time to be spent in low-quality ways...
The 80/20 principle says that if we doubled our time on the top 20 percent of activities, we could work