Peter MuReading Journal

July 13, 2024

10x Is Easier Than 2x

10x Is Easier Than 2x

Dan Sullivan

There’s no end to peeling away the layers.

1:29 AM

What got you there will keep you there.’ He

12:52 PM

I hope that you will not think me presumptuous or rude if I say that one of the secrets of productivity (in which I believe whereas I do not believe in creativity) is to have a VERY BIG waste paper basket to take care of ALL invitations such as yours—productivity in my experience consists of NOT doing anything that helps the work of other people but to spend all one’s time on the work that Good Lord has fitted one to do, and to do well.”[19](private://read/01j0hsn10t3e649hzgqrwrzmas/#pz271-17)

12:52 PM

The more you explore and refine your Unique Ability, the more you’re doing your work, not someone else’s. You’ll reach a level of *unique mastery* that becomes increasingly obvious and impactful to yourself and those around you, the more your life’s work begins to feel like a *sacred calling.* Your Unique Ability defines and clarifies your *Mastery*—what you and you alone are uniquely suited to do.

12:52 PM

Inevitably, these Masters, as they progress in their career paths, make a choice at a key moment in their lives: they decide to forge their own route, one that others will see as unconventional, but that suits their own spirit and rhythms and leads them closer to discovering the hidden truths of their object of study. This

2:18 PM

Mastery is not just the ability to do something well. It’s the ability to do something *uniquely well*. If it’s not unique, innovative, and uninhibited self-expression, *then it’s not true mastery*. Mastery and uniqueness are inseparable.

2:18 PM

Being increasingly honest with yourself and other people about what you most want for yourself and your life.

2:21 PM

Expanding your vision and thinking exponentially bigger for yourself about what you can be, do, and have

2:21 PM

Clarifying your ideal future self and what they would be doing

2:22 PM

• What is the unique value you provide to others, which no one else can? • What is the 10x jump that excites you most, which requires you go all-in on your Unique Ability to realize?

2:25 PM

A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play. . . Finite players play *within* boundaries; infinite players *play with* boundaries. . . Only that which can change can continue.”26

2:33 PM

When you embrace and take your Unique Ability seriously, you immediately remove yourself from ever competing with anyone again.

2:38 PM

*You can’t connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards. So, you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path.”* **— STEVE JOBS[1](private://read/01j0hsn10t3e649hzgqrwrzmas/#pz272-8)**

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