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James Clear, Robert Greene, Brad Stulberg, Tom Nichols, and Julia Baird on the Writer’s Process
The Daily Stoic
The Story of a Nuclear Engineer
There's a story i just found, and you can't steal it, cause it's going to be in my next book. A man was interviewed by admiral rickover who single handedly basically invents the idea of a nuclear submarine. He asked jimmy carter about all his accomplishments: did he always do his best? And he thought about it and said "no" The rest of his life was trying to provide a better answer for that question. It also encourages you to measure outcomes in a different way. You know, like we spend so much time measuring outcomes on how they are relative to everyone else. One is about how you feel compared to others;
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