Focus daily on your systems instead of your goals

Goals invite comparison, and comparison quietly tells you that you’re not enough yet. Naval put it well: desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until something specific happens. I’d rather revere the system — the thing I actually do each day — and let growth be the deeper goal.

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