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There are very few valuable resources that only accumulate.

Experience is one.

Paradoxically: the bigger the loss, the bigger the lesson.

It should be relatively simple to identify when we aren't accumulating net new experience, but in practice, it doesn't seem to be.

This quote by Stephen Covey describes how we often trick ourselves by thinking of experience as something we endure vs. something we expose ourselves to: 

“Some people say they have 20 years experience, when in reality, they have 1 year's experience repeated 20 times."

 

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Leverage is as much about where you are standing as how much force you are applying.

If you are building something, it is far more useful to focus on the work you are doing to produce the result than the result itself.

The constraint we apply to package our idea determines their reach & resonance. "Make 1 decision to eliminate 1,000 decisions."

Labor is generally a more interchangeable resource than vision.

To help understand this idea, consider the contrast between the two concepts ancient Greeks used to think about time.

It should be relatively simple to identify when we aren't accumulating net new experience, but in practice, it doesn't seem to be.

Language is an incredible tool. It makes it possible for us to externalize what we think and communicate it to others.