On Doing

from “If” by Rudyard Kipling the highlighted stanzas are written inside the Wimbledon Centre Court players’ entrance https://t.co/zZm7MFUtcZ

I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune, Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing… — Walt Whitman, “Song of the Open Road"

Whenever you chicken out, you don't just feel the pain of cowardice; you miss out on the pleasure of courage.

A final note on distinguishing experts from imitators: Many of us learn about a subject not by reading original research or listening to the expert, but by reading something intended to be highly transmissible. Think of the difference between reading an academic article and reading a newspaper article. While popularizers know more than the layman, ... See more

“There is a big difference between being interested in something and being committed to something.

Committed people do what interested people won’t.”

"The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. I believe that it is the duty of each of us to act as if the fate of the world depended on him … we must live for the future, not for our own comfort or success.” – Admiral Rickover

The sub-optimal done consistently trumps the optimal done sporadically. Can't talk about that endlessly on podcasts though.