Johnathan Chen

Interesting ideas.

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You don’t need more time. You need more focus.

Time isn’t the constraint. Your choices are.

— Shane Parrish

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Your relationship with the work shapes its weight more than the work itself.

— Shane Parrish

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Progress compounds

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perfect systems are not the goal—momentum and learning through action are.

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The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.

- Mary Oliver

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Once things are moving, momentum takes over.

Once the reaction starts, it becomes self-­sustaining.

- Shane Parrish

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After all, it was just one day. But add up these days to make a year and then add up these years to make a lifetime and perhaps you can now see how repeating today’s small failures can easily turn your life into a major disaster.

- Jim Rohn

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The danger comes when we look at a day squandered and conclude that no harm has been done.

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You don’t need to be smarter than others to outperform them if you can out-position them.

Anyone looks like a genius when they’re in a good position, and even the smartest person looks like an idiot when they’re in a bad one.

- Shane Parrish

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See challenges as opportunities.

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Fortune favors the bold

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Impatient with action, patient with results

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@Camicees FAT

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What the world cares about is what we produce - Steve Jobs

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Instead of "Here's where to look," it's "Here's your answer."

Instead of scanning sites, you ask for follow-ups.

Instead of piecing together info, you have conversations.

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Speed, focus, convection

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Ignorance debt is the distance between your current state and your goals, caused by unfilled knowledge gaps.

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The difference between good and exceptional isn’t hours worked – it’s the depth of thought applied to the right problems. - Shane Parrish