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A better strategy for shifting others’ expectations about your work is to consistently deliver what you promise instead of consistently explaining how you’re working. Become known as someone who never drops the ball, not someone who thinks a lot about their own productivity. If a request comes your way, be it in an email or hallway chat, make sure it’s handled. Don’t let things fall through the cracks, and if you commit to doing something by a certain time, hit the deadline, or explain why you need to shift it. If people trust you to handle the work they send your way, then they’re generally fine with not hearing back from you right away. On the other hand, if you’re flaky, others will demand faster responses, as they’ll feel they have to stay on you to ensure things get done. The professor and business writer Adam Grant uses the phrase “idiosyncrasy credits” to describe this reality.25 The better you are at what you do, he explains, the more freedom you earn to be idiosyncratic in how you deliver—no explanation required.
A World Without Email
Cal Newport
Those whose love we wanted but could not get, we emulate. It is dangerous but it makes us feel closer, gives us an illusion of the intimacy we never had. It stakes our claim upon that which was rightfully ours but denied. In my twenties, as my song and my story began to take shape, I searched for the voice I would blend with mine to do the telling. It is a moment when through creativity and will you can rework, repossess and rebirth the conflicting voices of your childhood, to turn them into something alive, powerful and seeking light. I’m a repairman. That’s part of my job. So I, who’d never done a week’s worth of manual labor in my life (hail, hail rock ’n’ roll!), put on a factory worker’s clothes, my father’s clothes, and went to work.
Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen
There are cameras everywhere at our training site and they have facial recognition technology. It’s called the NoahFace System. If a player is in the gym shooting—during practice, before or after, or if he comes in late at night to get shots up, which some of them do—the software logs every shot. Good shooters want to swish the ball in practice—make it without hitting iron. That’s perfection, and it takes any element of luck out of the equation. I learned that from Des Flood (Dr. Shot) back in Iowa. He would say, “How hard can you concentrate when you’re practicing to swish it, because if you make that your benchmark, you’re increasing your margin of error.” In our gym, when you start shooting, the cameras track everything—your arc, your depth, if you were wide right, wide left. We love that because we can say to them, “Hey, you took a hundred free throws when you were in the gym last night at midnight and you only had fifty-eight of them go straight within our guidelines. So let’s work on it.” In the championship season, Kyle went on a little cold streak and we figured, let’s pull all the data and see if anything jumps out at us. It did. His arc had dropped to 41 degrees. When he’s shooting well and the ball’s going in, it’s usually at 46 or 47 degrees. So he knew that’s what he had to correct. He did—and he was right back in sync.
Rapture
Nick Nurse and Phil Jackson
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