There’s no competitive advantage today in knowing more than the person next to you. The world doesn’t care. The world cares about what you can do with what you know – do you have the skill, do you have the will.
~ Tony Wagner (via Explore)
Knowing vs Doing
Life is too short…
Life is too short to waste it with people who don’t get it, whatever “it” may be for you, so make sure you surround yourself with people who do.
~ Xenios Thrasyvoulou (quoted in Bob Sutton’s post on The Power of the People Around You)
Process is more important than outcome
3. Process is more important than outcome.
When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go to where we’ve already been. If process drives outcome we may not know where we’re going, but we will know we want to be there.
~ From Bruce Mau’s brilliant Incomplete Manifesto for Growth
On learning and mastery
And I saw how, if you steadily worked at something, what you don’t know gradually erodes and what you do know slowly grows and at some point you’ve gained a degree of mastery. What you know becomes what you are. You know photography and you are a photographer. You know writing and you are a writer.
Mary Jo Bang: On Learning, Self-Discipline, and Taking the Road Less Traveled
Inspiration
…when you are inspired, your work can be inspirational to others.
~ Ken Robinson ‘The Element’
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
~ John Quincy Adams
