“The amount of crap you can get done without interruption is staggering; I find that on 2-pomodoro-days, I confidently wrap up my work day an hour earlier than normal. And no one’s offended that I waited 25 minutes to respond to them.”
“Allow yourself to feel it. If you need a day, two, a week, fine. But then, remember this: you don’t need their permission to do the work. You didn’t need their permission to start. And: you don’t need their permission to keep going.”
“If you’re serious about finding 1000 true fans for your work, you need to stop confusing attention with accomplishment and make a shift from metrics to meaning.”
“Once you know how the habit loop works — cue, routine, reward — you can build, break and stack habits to your heart’s content.”
“All of the big names in the industry have a channel that made them famous. Whether deliberately or by accident, influential people discover a channel for their message that has insanely high engagement.”
“The conditions you think you want are rarely the ones that help you produce your best work.”
“You don’t like your favorite writers because they’re great at writing. You like them because of how their brains work.”
“The internet lets you buy anything you could buy in New York. But it doesn’t let you shop the way you can shop in New York. And that’s now starting to change.”
“The internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.” — Frank Ocean
Successful people share a common ability, but it’s not what you think.