Doreen, I'm not suggesting that you should sell ou...

2009-11-19T09:42:24.839-06:00

Doreen, I'm not suggesting that you should sell out for the short term and disregard everything else. In fact, I'm saying the opposite.

My point is that to achieve long term goals, you need to continually work towards them and not lean on past achievements as proof of progress.

Longevity and a legacy is made up of moments and today is one of them. To use an overused cliche, the point is to make the most out of each journey and not to just focus on the destination.

I'd argue that simply from the standpoint that lon...

2009-11-17T23:28:54.696-06:00

I'd argue that simply from the standpoint that longevity *matters*. One or two data points? A flash in the proverbial pan. Sometimes just knowing when to quit is the key. That's where paying attention to the first and second derivatives is important.

Basically, it's the difference between, say, Heath Ledger and Humphrey Bogart. Bogie paid his dues--bad gangster flicks, "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (hated that movie!) and all. But it didn't fizzle out in some in some self-indulgent hookers-and-blow meltdown in the ultimately futile chase of perfection.

To my nearly 42-year-old self, it's ultimately about legacy, rather than the here and now. It's about knowing your strengths, respecting your limitations, and looking at the long-term, rather than raising the bar for its own sake.

Anyhoo, my two-cents.

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