People follow the steady ones. Spectacular is fun to watch, but steady is what gets trusted with the keys.

STILLNESS

WHAT THIS MEANS

Brilliance in bursts is entertaining and hard to plan around. Consistency is boring to describe and it is what everybody actually wants from the person holding something important, because the main thing they need to know is what will happen next time. Being predictable is not the absence of ability; it is a form of it.

Pick one thing you do irregularly and make it reliable for a month, even at a lower standard than your best. Tell people what they can expect from you and then match it. The keys go to whoever has never surprised anyone in a bad way.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Who in your life is reliably the same every day?

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