Newsletter Week 37 | 2021

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Hey there.I hope you've had a great week.

What I've Made For You

New book notes: $100M Offers by Alex HormoziThis book attempts to help you solve two important problems for entrepreneurs: It wants to help you get more clients and more cash.The book is short, but very dense in knowledge. I learned a tremendous amount from it. Most of it is probably basics, but I didn't know them, so it was of huge value to me.

The Mundanity of Excellence

There is nothing superhuman to excellence. It is 'simply' a bunch of small skills or activities, grouped into habits, which are done consistently. Excellence, then, is in habits & consistency. The minute details are important. Each aspect of some technique becomes critical. Each small action for that technique is grouped into a habit for doing that technique. Performing this perfectly every time means that you perform at the highest levels, given that the small actions you make are the best possible actions for that technique.

In other words; excellence is mundane. Excellent performance comes from doing ordinary actions, doing them consistently, and doing them as well as you can. When this is habitualized, and compounded over time, it adds up to great results.

Talent is a useless concept and only serves to mystify excellence, only given to a select few. It hides the actions taken to achieve great performance.

These are some of my notes on the paper, “The Mundanity of Excellence: An Ethnographic Report on Stratification and Olympic Swimmers” by Daniel F. Chambliss. This is, without a doubt, one of the best papers I've read to date.

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To your success. Regards,

Christian Bager Bach Houmann