Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who donโt support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.
James AltucherEvery game, and almost every life situation, has short cuts: ways you can get better without learning the entire literature of the game from beginning to end.
James AltucherSometimes it's better to just be quiet, to not think of anything at all. Out of silence comes the greatest creativity.
James Altucher