Sometimes your first instinct is not a good one.
Fighting an ocean rip is a unachievable task. Riding the rip to a better spot to get out and use the waves to bring you back to sure is a counterintuitive but safer option.
Tag Archives: Performance
Think About Less
Warren Buffet doesn’t look at every share, he thinks deeply about a select few.
Thinking about everything doesn’t show your intellect. Refining and thinking more deeply about less things creates better outcomes.
Don’t fix it in post
Creativity doesn’t happen with an abundance of resources, it is born from the presence of constraints.
Being put in a box doesn’t limit your creativity, it reveals it.
Jump into the Trough.
Steph Curry was nearly an NBA bust. The Bleacher Report said he is probably never going to be a star in the league. He nearly initially didn’t get any Division 1 College offers. Another scouting report said he had limited upside and relied too heavily on his outside shot. Even after having one of theContinue reading “Jump into the Trough.”
Shoot More Shots
The challenge of improvement isn’t accomplished in one moment. It is accomplished by thousands of small moment’s, some of them, failures.
Don’t overcorrect
Over-correcting from a mistake doesn’t put you back on your path, it just takes you to the other side of the path.
Skills vs Gifts
No one is born with gifts, no deity has touched someone with their heavenly blessings.
There is skills and hard work. The hard work turns those skills into uncommonly high competency which people confuse for gifts.
What do you want – Competency or Confidence?
Confidence without competency is fool-hardy. Competency without confidence is a waste.
Be Professional
To ‘be professional’ usually means taking abuse from someone above you that can’t regulate their emotions.
Only You Will Know
Your view on the world is unique and singular. What you think is imperfect might be perfect to someone else. And the great thing is you don’t get to decide what they think so put your work out there.
Luke McMeeken-Ruscoe 