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Cross the swamp
You start a project with clarity. Then, confusion creeps in. Divergences, dependencies, and distractions emerge—the results of good ideas, not bad ones. You’ll need to make many of these decisions, and they will be more difficult than you give them credit for. Sometimes, you lose focus of the goal, to the point that you might…
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What do you want to focus on?
What do you want to do, right now? What will other people think? What are some reasons you might succeed? What are some reasons you might fail? What are the emotions you feel? Does it matter? Who says something needs to get done? What’s the reason it’s important? What’s more important to you—being right, or…
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Poetry vs. textbook
If you want to write a book of poetry, don’t try to write a textbook. The goal is to get the reader to think and feel. It’s not to give the reader a multi-volume, encyclopedic, collection on a topic. If the reader is upset, you need to decide if they wanted a textbook and bought…