Niall Marshall
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Niall Marshall
If you want to start a writing habit, don’t start with essays. Write paragraphs. Shaping and editing essays from a cold start is quite hard. Instead, practice riffing paragraphs over a huge range of ideas. Publish them all somewhere, but don’t blast them.
Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
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“It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time. Give yourself permission to be a beginner.”
— Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way
What you do is more important than how you do everything else, and doing something well does not make it important .
"Productivity" Tricks for the Neurotic, Manic-Depressive, and Crazy (Like Me) - The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
Discovery consists of seeing what everyone has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Jim Simons: "I’m not an extremely fast thinker myself; I just work hard."
That was all I needed to do—work hard, not fast. A paper I published in '68 took me five years. But it has had 1,850 citations. For a math paper, that’s an awful lot.
There’s too much emphasis on a person’s being able to answer questions quickly."
“I wasn’t scared of missing, looking bad, or being embarrassed. That’s because I always kept the end result, the long game, in my mind. I always focused on the fact that I had to try something to get it, and once I got it, I’d have another tool in my arsenal. If the price was a lot of work and a few missed shots, I was OK with that.
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