“Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.”

― Hunter S Thompson

“Be not professional in what you do, rather be excellent. Excellence has life in it — it has colors in it — it has sweetness in it — whereas professionalism is a dead corpse exuding the disgusting smell of obedience. Excellence requires no obedience, yet in excellence you act your best, without all the life-sucking efforts.”

― Abhijit Naskar

“Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wise, risking more than others think is safe, dreaming more than others think is practical, and expecting more than others think is possible.”

― Ronnie Oldham

“I must address the topic of whether the effort required for excellence is worth it. I believe it is — the chief gain is in the effort to change yourself, in the struggle with yourself, and it is less [...]

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Outline:

(01:40) The feeling of caring about excellence

(03:29) Caring about excellence and caring about growth

(04:05) Excellence and x-risk

(05:55) On not making the perfect the enemy of the good

(08:09) Why excellence matters

(09:35) The pursuit of excellence

The original text contained 4 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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