Erin Matson: 'Simple' is the New Black

Posted Apr 21, 2022
It boggles my mind how many people get bored with the simple work. People don’t want to hear about the "boring" stuff. They don’t want to continue working on the simple, mundane stuff. But you’ll never be great if you can’t do the that simple stuff better than everyone else. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." (Erin Matson Blog)

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