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It’s Easy to Be Great… It’s Hard to Be Consistent

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Re: It’s Easy to Be Great… It’s Hard to Be Consistent

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I spend a lot of my life trying to maximizing what the guy refers to in the article as "the madness", the crazy obsessive phase that comes with a new idea. I am desperate to grasp that productivity... Unfortunately, he doesn't offer any real solutions for getting there, other than saying, yeah, it fades.

I think the point of the article is that being productive outside of the madness is more important for success than what you do during it. 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.

Re: It’s Easy to Be Great… It’s Hard to Be Consistent

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This looks like a really well-written blog, but the way it has [tweet] links scattered around everywhere REALLY puts me off. It comes off as extremely arrogant. I hope Rob reads this...

Yep, I'm reading this. The intent of the Tweet links is to remove the barrier to entry for people who want to quote pieces of the article. I've found that removing even a few seconds of work increases the chance that someone will think "hey, that's a cool quote to tweet."

You might want to make that more explicit - I assumed that it was links to other peoples tweets to back up your claims.

Great book by the way.

Re: It’s Easy to Be Great… It’s Hard to Be Consistent

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, I'm reading this. The intent of the Tweet links is to remove the barrier to entry for people who want to quote pieces of the article. I've found that removing even a few seconds of work increases the chance that someone will think "hey, that's a cool quote to tweet."

I think what our neighborhood SOB is saying is that it comes across as extremely arrogant to think that a random blog post of yours has 20 tweetable quotations.

Yep, I got that part (btw - it has 6 tweetable quotes).

I removed the links but given that it was an experiment I'm curious to hear what others think. Two people is a small fraction of the 5k or 6k who will read this post in the next 24 hours.

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