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It’s Easy to Be Great… It’s Hard to Be Consistent

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27 pointsph0rque13 comments

I spend a lot of my life trying to maximizing what the guy refers to in the article as "the madness", the crazy obsessive phase that comes with a new idea. I am desperate to grasp that productivity...

Unfortunately, he doesn't offer any real solutions for getting there, other than saying, yeah, it fades.

I think the point of the article is that being productive outside of the madness is more important for success than what you do during it. 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.

The message in this piece isn't new, but needs to be listened to more often. Success is measured in terms of months or years, not minutes or hours.

One quick extension to the post:

Consistency doesn't come by building a cage in which you are forced to get something done. It is far better to consistently build positive motivation. There are dozens of ways to do that, but however you do it, motivation will win out over restraint every time.

Starting is easy, Finishing is hard. - http://goo.gl/03XrI

"This is my best piece of advice for any entrepreneur… the first 80% is easy, the next 15% is hard and last five percent is painful."

Dupe - beaten by six minutes! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1868588

Yeah, but I cleaned up my url :~)

If it's easy to be great, then it should be easy to be great again (and again, and again..)

This looks like a really well-written blog, but the way it has [tweet] links scattered around everywhere REALLY puts me off. It comes off as extremely arrogant. I hope Rob reads this...

Yep, I'm reading this.

The intent of the Tweet links is to remove the barrier to entry for people who want to quote pieces of the article. I've found that removing even a few seconds of work increases the chance that someone will think "hey, that's a cool quote to tweet."

I think what our neighborhood SOB is saying is that it comes across as extremely arrogant to think that a random blog post of yours has 20 tweetable quotations.

Yep, I got that part (btw - it has 6 tweetable quotes).

I removed the links but given that it was an experiment I'm curious to hear what others think. Two people is a small fraction of the 5k or 6k who will read this post in the next 24 hours.

You might want to make that more explicit - I assumed that it was links to other peoples tweets to back up your claims.

Great book by the way.

I tweeted it. So he will certainly be notified.

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