“ Publicity does not come easily, profits do not come easily, and knowledge does not come easily. ”
The combination of power, fear, and mania can be deadly. The leader, convinced that he might be betrayed, acts first and betrays others first. Afraid that he's not well liked, he works so hard to get others to like him that it has the opposite effect. Convinced of mismanagement, he micromanages and becomes the source of the mismanagement. And on and on - the things we fear or dread, we blindly inflict on ourselves.
~ Ryan Holiday
Let others slap each others on the back while you're back in the lab or the gym or pounding the pavement.
Doing great work is a struggle. It's draining, it's demoralizing, it's frightening - not always, but it can feel that way when we're deep in the middle of it.
When you can break apart something, or look at it from some new angle, it loses its power over you.
