A common piece of advice from pro Magic: the Gathering plays is “focus on what matters.” The advice is mostly useless to many people though because the pros have made it to that level precisely because they know what matters to begin with.
perhaps the better advice, then, is “when things aren’t working, consider the possibility that it’s because your efforts are not going into what matters, rather than assuming it is because you need to work harder on the issues you’re already focusing on”
A common piece of advice from pro Magic: the Gathering plays is “focus on what matters.” The advice is mostly useless to many people though because the pros have made it to that level precisely because they know what matters to begin with.
perhaps the better advice, then, is “when things aren’t working, consider the possibility that it’s because your efforts are not going into what matters, rather than assuming it is because you need to work harder on the issues you’re already focusing on”
That’s a much better advice than Godin’s near-tautology.