Yesterday, I told my daughter something - and I guess it answers this very question.
I told her that learning, educating yourself, investing in yourself, reading, are all important. But they're rarely urgent.
Most of us, successful or not, do what's urgent. We rush around chasing deadlines, targets, goals, doing what we need to do.
A key differentiator between those that succeed and those that don't is that the successful tend to think beyond the urgent - and put in the time, find the time because all of us are busy, to ensure they get away from the urgent and spend time on what's important.
Unlike the urgent, the important has little impact on the short-term, but it builds up, it compounds, and you need to have a little foresight - you have to think long-term, see the bigger picture, stick to your vision - to motivate yourself to keep on doing those important things.
"Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest." - Warren Buffett
-Asim Qureshi
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