People criticize because it helps them justify the risks they chose not to take.

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In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.
― Octavia Butler
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There are 5 Types of Hard Work... and it helps to know that No. 4 & 5 work better in business than No. 1 & 2...

👉🏼 The First kind is “Labour” based. You put in more effort, more intensity, more hours, and more inputs to gain an output compared to others.

👉🏼 The Second kind is “Efficiency” based. With the same inputs as of the first... You stay more focused for longer, remove distractions, and find smarter ways to either get the same output with the same inputs, or reduce inputs to get the same output.

This is what the Industrial Revolution taught us, and most family businesses teach their next generation. It stems from the thought process of factories and delegation to cheap labour.

👉🏼 The Third kind is “Consistency” based. You do simple things for so long that it outlasts everyone else. It creates an unmatched compounding in your skills, your brand, your reputation and your heritage. You’ve increased the Duration.

This is my favourite and the most timeless, which should be used with all forms of hard work from 1 to 5. This is how brands are built, and compounding kicks into business results.

👉🏼 The Fourth kind is “Opportunity” based. You spot newer opportunities better than the competition and do it faster than others grab on to them.

This is when someone tries new things relentlessly, by learning new skills consistently, without letting failure beat them down.

👉🏼 The Fifth kind is “Leverage” based. You find a new technology or platform that creates huge leverage and propels you way ahead of others because you’re using a new tool that others haven’t adapted to.

Businesses are created by working hard on 4 and 5.

Unfortunately, most keep looking in 1 and 2.

Regardless of what you pick, don’t give up on the No. 3

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Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.
― Walt Whitman
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If others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don't tell us something we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know and to replace the need to communicate. Even if we hear something and we don't understand we make assumptions about what it means and then believe the assumptions. We make all sorts of assumptions because we don't have the courage to ask questions.
― Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements
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I learned that it is important to be true to yourself. Many people do whatever society tells them to do. They’ve lost themselves. I grew up with Confucian values, and they are limiting. I focused only on work and making a living. But I’m old now. Remember not to lose who you are.

Pik-Shuen Fung, Ghost Forest

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When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding.
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of the Island
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That message is simple: When you come to one of the many moments in life when you must give an account of yourself, provide a ledger of what you have been, and done, and meant to the world, do not, I pray, discount that you filled a dying man’s days with a sated joy, a joy unknown to me in all my prior years, a joy that does not hunger for more and more, but rests, satisfied. In this time, right now, that is an enormous thing.

Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

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I began to realize that coming in such close contact with my own mortality had changed both nothing and everything. Before my cancer was diagnosed, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn’t know when. After the diagnosis, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn’t know when. But now I knew it acutely. The problem wasn’t really a scientific one. The fact of death is unsettling. Yet there is no other way to live.

Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

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Some things are more precious because they don't last long.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Trees want to be still, but the wind won't stop blowing.When children want to care for their parents, it's already too late.

Pik-Shuen Fung, Ghost Forest

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