When running long distance, proper form is more important than more energy.
Proper form makes efficient use of available energy and prevents injury.
At work, having the proper form means having the right attitude.
The right attitude makes efficient use of available time and prevents burnout.
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Those who are willing to do today that no one else is, will be able to do tomorrow what no one else can.
Good work requires enrollment of others, acceptance of deadlines, clarity to see the problem and a way forward, and willingness to incorporate feedback.
Good work is not easy, but it’s also not impossible.
If anyone can do it, it’s you.
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The future will unfold with or without us.
But you have the privileges, skills, and insights to bend it in a useful direction.
Keep growing them and keep using them to keep bending the future.
What needs to be done to change the health care landscape?
How can you put your privileges, skills, and insights to work in this cause?
What incremental, daily actions will help you achieve this?
Be clear on what a successful day at work looks like, otherwise you’ve wasted hard-earned privileges, skills, and insights.
Feedback is rare.
When someone tells you they dislike your work, thank them!
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No one can ‘learn’ you, they can only ‘teach’ you.
Learning requires curiosity and active participation, which is completely on you.
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‘Perfect’ only means that it met the spec.
Who decided the spec and why?
Sometimes the highest quality work requires abandoning the Creative Brief, challenging the Client, and showing the room something that wasn’t seen before.
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What do you want?
First ask yourself this before picking from what you have.
Compromises and resourcefulness come later, not first.
‘What is the system counting on marketers to do?’
Answering this question has more utility than ‘how did my team do?’
You can game the process for now, but your approach will always catch up with you.
Alternatively, first understand the principles so you can work with them forever.
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