Stop looking for an epiphany, and start looking for weak points. Stop looking for angels, and start looking for angles. - Ryan Holiday

Andrew Carnegie famously put it. There’s nothing shameful about sweeping. It’s just another opportunity to excel — and to learn. But you, you’re so busy thinking about the future, you don’t take any pride in the tasks you’re given right now. You just phone it all in, cash your paycheck, and dream of some higher station in life. Or you think, This is just a job, it isn’t who I am, it doesn’t matter. Foolishness. Everything we do matters — whether it’s making smoothies while you save up money or studying for the bar — even after you already achieved the success you sought.

Reject distraction.
Weigh advice against the counsel of our convictions.
Deliberate without being paralyzed.

There’s no one to perform for. There is just work to be done and lessons to be learned, in all that is around us.