Not all tasks at hand demand depth and foundational understanding, for satisfactory accomplishment. At certain times, tasks are just intermediary stepping stones, with no inherent value of their own. They are needed to be treated with the importance that they hold, no more, no less.
Shying away from smart, cost effective ways to bring a task to quick completion, and from last moment peaks in attention & energy – goes against both, the spirit of enterprising engineer, and the spirit of a warrior.
Depth oriented study is a supplement, not a substitute to result oriented study.
When a man lets hours slip by, perfectionism doesn’t come to bail him out, no matter how attached he had been to her.
If a man doesn’t endure and breaks long sustained patterns and habits, he wastes all the capital that was invested in him.
That battle of endurance is worth fighting for till the VERY LAST breath – surrender is cowardly.
Being busy (not productively though) in works of maintenance & in intellectual entertainment needs zero bold efforts. Fake sense of accomplishment at the end of the day is the biggest enemy confronting – giving up the fight against it is loosing the battle before even picking up the weapon. Don’t let it aggress against your most valued property – time.
If the hour, the day which just went by generated Zero capital for you, you incurred a net loss out of it.
What you achieved you can directly count by measuring what you gave up in order to achieve it.
At one time, the point of no return is confronted. Not a single wrong step is ever forgiven, when moving past this point.
The onset of lifelong regret should predate the mind every moment, once man moves past this point. He should be ever aware that the past would stare him in his eyes, & that day No excuse produced will ever satisfy him.
That, in essence, is what separates investors and wasters.
That’s what is behind every progress ever made.
That’s the essence of hard work.
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