Aside from the profound conclusions and hyperbolic examples, this is just some darned practical advice taken at face value. The value of focus is highly underr

Aside from the profound conclusions and hyperbolic examples, this is just some darned practical advice taken at face value. The value of focus is highly underrated. You don't need to do everything, and often doing everything 'on your list' means you're not devoting the time you should be to more important things; things that may not be on your list, or may not even be listable, or might just be doing the things on your list better. Devote yourself to focusing on one thing, shed the things that don't matter, and you might find a quality of execution you never realized. This is something I learned perhaps too late in my career so far. I feel I would have advanced more and faster and achieved better results if I had stopped doing things that weren't tightly focused—not only on what I needed, but on what my company needed and what our customers needed.