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#54 Jason Fried: Doing the Enough Thing

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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How Do You Measure Yourself Against a Number or Goal?

"If you need a target to do your best work, it feels a bit artificial," he says. "How about just not doing it at all and just doing the best you can? Like i'm going to try to do the best work i can every day,. regardlessf if there's a target or not?" He adds that people who have an inner score card are less common than they'd like to believe. 'You seem to take a lot of satisfaction out of just doing good work'

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