Standard Milestones Are Based on an Unserious Approach to Work

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A grade level’s worth of learning can be compressed much, much shorter than a year if you just avoid wasting time.

And once you see this in academics, you see this everywhere in life.

Standard milestones are based on what anyone can accomplish with a high volume of unserious, inefficient work.

Why?

Because that’s the standard approach to work. Show up, mess around, waste time, do the bare minimum, run out the clock, rinse and repeat every weekday.

But if you just take things seriously, work efficiently, and put in the same volume, you can take off flying.

It’s the biggest edge: actually giving a shit.

But in order to capitalize on this edge, you have to get into a line of work where outsized results reap outsized reward.

Not every line of work is like this.

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