How many times have you heard the old adage “slow and steady wins the race”? This is often used to counter the “perpetual hustle” culture that has emerged in the workplace. The problem? While is essence it’s a solid principle, the way it’s applied is often more harmful than helpful. Slow and steady definitely do not win the race alone. Slow, steady, and deliberate wins the race, when punctuated by occasional sprints.

It’s not enough to make daily, measured progress on your work if it’s not deliberate progress. If you’re not moving in a meaningful direction, then failure is a likely outcome. While most professionals know this, it often doesn’t affect how we approach our work. Instead of defining our work effectively, we are instead carried along by the flow of it from day to day. Instead of determining the problems we are trying to solve, we tackle big, conceptual challenges and thus set ourselves up for failure from the start.

On today’s show we share four principles for making slow, steady, and deliberate progress on your most important work.

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The intro music for the AC podcast is by Joshua Seurkamp. End remix is by DJ Z-Trip.