Investor Graham Duncan on how to excel:
"[Tennis champion] Novak Djokovic said in an interview with the Financial Times that "I can carry on playing at this level because I like hitting the tennis ball." The interviewer replied in surprise: "Are there really players who don't like hitting the ball?" Djokovic answered, "Oh yes. There are people out there who don't have the right motivation. You don't need to talk to them. I can see it."
If you can find the thing you do for its own sake, the compulsive piece of your process, and dial that up and up, beyond the imaginary ceiling for that activity you may be creating, my experience is the world comes to you for that thing and you massively outperform the others who don't actually like hitting that particular ball. I think the rest of career advice is commentary on this essential truth."
This is the ticket out of your current state. Most sit and complain about their circumstance, job, life. Instead take pride in everything you do, from how your make your bed, to how you do the mundane tasks at work.
Author James Clear "Atomic Habits" "You can usually accomplish more by giving something your full effort for a few years rather than giving it a lukewarm effort for fifty years.
Pick a priority for this season of your life and do it to the best of your ability.
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