The Account Nobody Sends You a Statement For
I want to kill something in the first three pages, because it is standing between you and every useful thing in this book and it will…
Author: dustinwhately
The Sequence Is Backward
There is a diagram you have seen. Three circles. What you love. What you are good at. What people will pay for. Find the middle, get…
A man who cannot govern a Tuesday will not govern a decade
Ask a man where two thousand dollars went last week and he will pull out his phone and tell you inside four minutes. Ask him where…
Deep Work in a House With Children In It
Most productivity advice is written for people who live alone. Four hours of uninterrupted focus in a silent room is a wonderful concept. It is also…
The Stage Nobody Survives
Say you get through the first part. Somebody paid you. Then somebody else did. Money is coming in irregularly and you are thrilled and terrified in…
Say the number out loud. It is wrong, and it is wrong low.
What does one month of your life cost to run? All in. Not the mortgage and the car, everything. Say it out loud before you keep…
Made in Order to Make
Everything you build with your hands has an expiration date and most of them expire sooner than you think. The company gets sold, or absorbed, or…
You Were Not Made to Be Manageable
There was a man at the airport named Dale who ran the fuel farm. Dale knew more about that operation than anybody who has ever worked…
Whose approval have you been living for?
Every man is running an audition. Most of them do not know the name of the judge. He performs competence at work, steadiness at home, and…
The Competence Gap Is Real
I told you in the last chapter that the gap exists and that it is not evidence of fraud. Now I want to be considerably more…
Managed Men
Nobody is going to hand you room. I want to say that plainly and then spend a chapter on why, because most men are operating on…
Sell before you build
Most men lose two years at the start of a business, and they lose it doing something that feels exactly like progress. They build. They register…