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“Yes, but the main thing is that greatness is doable. Greatness is many, many individual feats, and each of them is doable.”
The story goes like this: Buffett turns to his faithful pilot and says that he must have dreams greater than flying Buffett around to where he needs to go. The pilot confesses that, yes, he does. And then Buffett takes him through three steps. First, you write down a list of twenty-five career goals. Second, you do some soul-searching and circle the five highest-priority goals. Just five. Third, you take a good hard look at the twenty goals you didn’t circle. These you avoid at all costs. They’re what distract you; they eat away time and energy, taking your eye from the goals that matter more.
“There is no more miserable human being,” observed William James, than the one for whom “the beginning of every bit of work” must be decided anew each day.
There may be exceptions, but the rarity of these exceptions proves the rule.
