All Success Is a Lagging Indicator

Pulling an all-nighter is not a sign of dedication but a lagging indicator of the exact opposite. It means you plan poorly, you procrastinate, you aren't proactive enough, you don't know how to effectively manage your work and your time.

Robert Greene's definition of creativity. He says, "creativity is a function of the previous work you put in."

When a day's writing goes well, it's got little to do with that day at all. It's actually a lagging indicator of hours and hours spent researching and thinking. Every passage and page has a prologue titled preparation.

Writing is a byproduct of hours and hours of reading, researching, thinking, making my notecards.