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Perfect never comes
I am a perfectionist. I sometimes wait too long or iterate too many times until I get the right outcome. That’s why my execution time is relatively slow. In a fast moving world where life changing opportunities could come by, slow execution means lost opportunities. I come to accept that good enough should be the…
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Excellence comes from elimination
As someone who has always wanted to be exceptional at everything — sports, music, business, creative work — I’m slowly realizing a hard truth: You cannot be exceptional at everything. For the longest time, I refused to accept that. I remember periods where I would train obsessively in tennis, take guitar lessons, read books, learn…
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I can’t go hard at the gym and at work apparently
For the past two weeks, I’ve been training 2 hours a day, 5 days a week — mixing boxing, Muay Thai, and weightlifting every morning. And to say I’ve been exhausted would be an understatement. I couldn’t perform optimally at work because I felt fatigued throughout the day. Part of the reason was because the…
