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Jun 2, 2021Liked by Francis Chen

"If we want to hit the top 10-20% of our craft, we cannot ignore all the intermediate steps that we need to take in order to get there." -- This! Many of us get stuck here. Glad you brought it up. Similar to Steven Covey's view of creating habits, just getting out of the atmosphere is the biggest fuel usage. Once you're our in orbit, it's much easier.

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amen man. and sometimes those intermediate steps can be the biggest blocker that makes us want to give up. it's better to spend a bit more time figuring out those intermediate steps and devoting extra time figuring out how to fix them since it pays off exponentially in the long run

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