The Best Minute: Preparation, how to improve, and being an expert

1 IDEA FROM ME

You get rewarded for what you do, not for your preparation. However, the most prepared person usually performs the best.

Therefore, concern yourself more with your process than your outcome, and you’ll likely achieve better outcomes.

Don’t focus on losing 20 pounds, focus on eating better
Don’t focus on being a better person, focus on living with integrity
Don’t focus on getting straight A’s, focus on creating consistent rhythms and times for studying

Results-oriented goals are not bad, but they are incomplete if you don’t have a plan for preparation. This is why most New Year’s resolutions fail, they are result-oriented with no practical plan of action.

Those who prepare well perform well, even though everyone else only sees the performance and not the preparation.

2 QUOTES FROM OTHERS

I. Author Toni Morrison on how to improve:

“I thought of myself as like the jazz musician: someone who practices and practices and practices in order to be able to invent and to make his art look effortless and graceful. I was always conscious of the constructed aspect of the writing process, and that art appears natural and elegant only as a result of constant practice and awareness of its formal structures.”

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II. Rutherford B. Hayes on where experts start:

“Every expert was once a beginner.”

1 INTERESTING FACT

Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

When the famous Mattel, Inc. toy was first introduced back in March 1959, she was given the full moniker of Barbara Millicent Roberts. Her first name is in honor of creator Ruth Handler's daughter, Barbara, who inspired her mother to design an adult-like doll while playing with paper versions and giving them grown-up personalities.

Source: Best Life