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Comment on Get on the Plane: You Become What You Do at the Margins by Taylor Pearson

Thanks Foster! I appreciate the support.

Comment on Get on the Plane: You Become What You Do at the Margins by Taylor Pearson

Thanks for reading and dropping a note Pascal!

Comment on Get on the Plane: You Become What You Do at the Margins by Taylor Pearson

Thanks Dan!

I just did an interview this morning and was imploring everyone to go read Dalio’s Principles. It’s so unpublicized that it’s like a magic little hidden wisdom bomb. I re-read it at least once a year.

Comment on Get on the Plane: You Become What You Do at the Margins by Josh

I remember the first time I read one of your articles about illegible career scripts a year or two ago a huge light bulb went off in my head.

Intuitively I knew that there were a bunch of unconnected skill sets I had to build and life choices I had to make over the long run in order to be able to build a business out of my artistic vision.

You’ve made it less risky to sit around thinking, “I’m going to get good at online marketing, refine my sense of humor and delivery style, and get profic...

Comment on Get on the Plane: You Become What You Do at the Margins by David Petersen

If you read NNT’s Incerto you will never get anything like a game plan from the Professor of Uncertainty. Here in this great post TP fills this gap with his “default to” list. Get on the plane and go to the FROG SPA (Focus, Risk, Optionality, Generous, Ship, People, Assets)! This dude can think and write.

Comment on Get on the Plane: You Become What You Do at the Margins by Dan Fries

Man, this is solid stuff. A post to bookmark and save as a reminder to “default to” new myelin pathways.

Interesting contrasting Buffer and the investors in Liar’s Poker; being transparent versus being irrational and trying to save face. Being totally transparent is an effective strategy for seeing what’s actually true.

It reminded me of Dalio’s Principles, where he actively seeks out well-regarded, knowledgeable people to challenge his ideas before making a big decision. Essentially the opp...

Comment on Get on the Plane: You Become What You Do at the Margins by L.R. Laggy

Great post, thank you. Reminds me in some ways of this Paul Graham essay: http://paulgraham.com/ds.html. There won’t always be time to get on the plane but in the early stages, that time exists.

Must now turn my attention now to building my asset Thanks again for the essay, and for the rest of your body of work.

Comment on Get on the Plane: You Become What You Do at the Margins by Jordan Schumacher

Great post, and I couldn’t agree more. All of the gains and growth in any skill don’t come until you are one step outside of your comfort zone, or as you said, when you’re “at the margin.”

Lifting weights? If you’re used to doing reps of 10, all the gains will come after rep 11.
Training for a marathon? If your comfort zone is a 5 mile run, you won’t start improving until you run 6.
Writing a book or blog? It’s not until you fully complete a post and hit publish (the biggest point of resistan...

Comment on Get on the Plane: You Become What You Do at the Margins by Pascal Wagner

Awesome post Taylor! I really enjoyed this one. Great food for thought!

Comment on Get on the Plane: You Become What You Do at the Margins by Foster Hodge

Wow Taylor, this one is spot on. Every single ‘default’ example could serve as the starting ground for your next book. Default to shipping, to generosity, to choosing people over opportunities. Perfect. Keep up the long form and the outstanding work.