Shortcuts...........................

 

The successful learn vicariously; the foolish insist on firsthand pain.

-Farnum Street

no growth hack............

 

If there is one unavoidable truth in this world, it's that there is no substitute for putting in the work.  There is no shortcut or growth hack or magic pill that can get you around the hard work of doing your job well, of winning something you care about, or of making your dreams come true.

-Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life

The "dumb tax".....................

...................back story here

Magic pills don't exist....................

  The shortcut turnpike is dark and filled with terrors.

-Tony Isola, from this post

About shortcuts................................

 More and more today, we don't want to do the work or take the chances required for greatness, and we try to fix all those shortcuts on the back end with marketing and branding—modern, fancy words that mean lie.

-Wright Thompson, Pappyland:  A Story Of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last

Abbreviated cliff notes.....................

………..on some of the best "business" books out there- here.  


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A short cut..............................

     Recent research, however, shows something different.  When scientists analyse people who appear to have tremendous self-control, it turns out those individuals aren't all that different from those who are struggling.  Instead, "disciplined" people are better at structuring their lives in a way that does not require heroic willpower and self-control.  In other words, they spend less time in tempting situations.
     The people with the best self-control are typically the ones who need to use it the least.  It's easier to practice self-restraint when you don't have to use it very often.  So, yes, perseverance, grit, and willpower are essential to success, but the way to improve these qualities is not by wishing your were a more disciplined person, but by creating a more disciplined environment.

-James Clear,  Atomic Habits

It could be that.........................

............I'm just a poor line-switcher, but I too find this rings true:

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I started to clip an excerpt....................

................................................from this blog post about varieties of laziness, but then couldn't decide which one.  The whole damn thing is worth reading.

Short cuts............................................

The Mighty E. gives us an easy way to access his archives.

66,000 books on happiness.........................

Don't have time to read them all?  Here is a handy short cut.  Ten must-read books on happiness, each summarized in one sentence.

thanks craig

It is so much easier that way.................

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